Word: lloyds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week Lloyd Warner, a 19-year-old Negro of St. Joseph, Mo. confessed to raping a young white woman in an alley after binding her with her stockings. The judge who heard his prompt confession observed that there was no necessity to "hurry things." But in a distinctly hurrying mood was the crowd which began gathering outside St. Joseph's jail and court house that evening. When some rivermen appeared to take command of the mob, it surged into the court house, through the sheriff's living quarters, destroying everything before it. Governor Park ordered...
Hoopla (Fox) is a tardy adaptation of Kenyon Nicholson's famed play The Barker, directed by Frank Lloyd (Cavalcade, Berkeley Square) and designed to re-establish the vanished prestige of Actress Clara Bow. She is Lou, hardboiled dancer in a carnival, who, to oblige the mistress of the proprietor (Preston Foster), makes advances to his callow son (Richard Cromwell), ends by marrying...
Instead, Mr. Bullitt turned up before the U. S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee to make screaming headlines for days by blurting out his inside opinions of the Paris Peace Conference, Treaty of Versailles and League of Nations. Premier Lloyd George dignified these proceedings by calling Mr. Bullitt a "liar," referred contemptuously to "a journey some boys are reported to have made to Russia." When smug Philadelphia friends called him a "Bolshevik"' and when his first wife divorced him in 1923, Bill Bullitt married the widow of John Reed, the U. S. Communist who went through the Russian Revolution, wrote...
...Years ago General Mustafa the Excellent and his Young Turks had al ready beaten the Allies at the Dardanelles, ousted the Sultan and beaten the Greeks (whom David Lloyd George set against them) before they proceeded to found the Turkish Republic...
...motorboat, headed for Sheepshead Bay. The wind swept them off their course, far out to sea. Their gasoline gave out, they drifted for five days without food or water. On the sixth day, according to Warshauer, they sighted the S. S. Conte Biancamano, crack passenger liner of the Lloyd Sabaudo Line. When the steamer came within hailing distance, the castaways waved distress signals, shouted for help. Passengers and crew waved back, they said, but the liner sailed by without stopping. Two days later Coast Guardsmen rescued the drifting men, rushed them to a hospital where Tuchyner died. David Warshauer, permanently...