Word: leos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After 20 years the name of Leo Frank still makes news in Georgia and beyond. A slender young Brooklyn Jew with a Cornell degree. Frank went South, married an Atlanta girl, became superintendent of an Atlanta pencil factory. In April 1913, a 14-year-old worker named Mary Phagan was found violently murdered in the factory's basement. Two days later Frank was arrested for the crime, tried and convicted largely on the testimony of a Negro employed as a sweeper in the factory. New York City Jews rushed to Frank's defense, raised funds to appeal...
...evening. The meteors are called Perseoids, because they appear to come from the direction of the constellation, Perseus, which forms with Andromeda, an over lasting dramatic picture in the skies. In November, the earth passes through another belt and is bombarded by meteors from the direction of Leo, so that as many as 40 "shooting stars" can be seen in one minute with the Naka eye. There will be an exhibit of outstanding stellar photography, and an observation and identity of constellations if the weather permits. The development of astronomical equipment, illustrations of the Hooker telescope, the famous Lick observatory...
...Helen Hicks: the New York State women's golf championship: 7 & 5 in the 36-hole final against Mrs. Leo Federman, after scoring a 71 (men's record for the course) in her morning round; at Plandome...
...current investigation of the beneficent effect of penal institutions on their adolescent inmates. Mary (Loretta Young), like Constance Bennett in Bed of Roses and Jean Harlow in Hold Your Man, is an alumna of the reformatory but she has a law-abiding nature. When aiding her accomplice Leo (Ricardo Cortez) to rob a cabaret, she saved a handsome young patrician named Tom Mannering Jr. (Franchot Tone) from being murdered. He rewards her with a job in his law office. She is already affianced to her employer when sent to a jail for a crime that she committed long before. Cinema...
...Labor Advisory Board were ap pointed by Madam Secretary Perkins: Economist Leo Wolman: Joseph Frey, president of International Boilermakers Union; William H. Green, president of the A. F. of L.; Father Francis Haas of the Catholic Welfare Council : Rose Schneiderman, Secretary of the Women's Trades Union League...