Word: legging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...smalltime crook named Gooch for the abduction of two sheriffs from Paris, Tex. to Pushmataha County, Ark. Kidnapper Gooch and a pal did what they did to thwart arrest for a series of robberies. In a scuffle preceding the abduction one of the sheriffs was injured in the leg, thus enabling the jury at Gooch's trial to recommend the death penalty under the Lindbergh Law. Gooch was executed...
...Snatch's story at his trial, after being indicted under the Lindbergh Law, he seized Candidate Kelly, bundled him into a darkened automobile and drove toward the State line but did not cross it. In the preliminary scuffle Jeremiah Kelly tripped & fell trying to get away, broke a leg. Oscar Snatch was convicted on the ground that he had kidnapped his rival for "ransom or reward or otherwise." Since the victim was missing seven days, the law presumed he had been transported in interstate commerce. The jury chose to believe a State line had been crossed, recommended the death...
Died. Howie Morenz, 34, star center of the Montreal Canadiens and one of the world's greatest hockey players; of heart failure in a Montreal hospital where he had been since breaking a leg in a game with Chicago last January...
...first five minutes, searched fruitlessly for the next 45. Running wide and fast, Air Pilot Sam found not a bird. This time, however, he handled like a champion and the judges, after matching his two performances, gave him the title, Handler Farrior the $1,500 purse and a leg on the Robert Worth Bingham Trophy to Owner Lambert D. Johnson, president of Evansville, Ind.'s Mead, Johnson Co. (baby food...
...Chicago Explorer Osa Johnson resumed lecturing less than a week after witnessing the burial at Chanute, Kans. of her husband Martin, killed in a Western Air Express crash in January that nearly cost her life (TIME, Jan. 25). Declared she, still pained by a brace on her right leg: "I want to get back to the jungles. I could never stand it to stay here in civilization very long. So can't we talk about lions or elephants or orangutans or a beautiful sunset in Borneo...