Word: loop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...statement in reference to TIME'S story under the head "Negro Baptists," on p. 34 of issue of Aug. 25. The story states that Chicago newspapers, according to the colored churchmen, failed to report on the Nations (colored) Baptist convention in retaliation for the colored boycott on "loop" merchants who refuse to employ colored help...
...capital it was in Chicago last week for the ten-day period of the National Air Races. Airmen & aircraft from all parts of the land were congregated in the city proper and at Curtiss-Reynolds Airport, Glenview, 16 mi. northwest of the Loop...
...slip out of pools to bask in the sun. Hunter Siemel's plan is to get between his snake and the water, put it on the defensive. Other men will surround it on the land side. Each man will be equipped with a long pole with a rawhide loop at the end, like a dog-catcher's dog- catcher. When the snake finds itself cornered, it will make for the water. The captors will slip their loops over the beast's head and tail, work them toward the middle to make room for more loops. Hunter Siemel...
Barnstormer. Roy ("Jack Dare") Ahearn, famed barnstormer, parachute jumper and stuntflyer, head of the Red Wing Flying Circus, took a French Albert parasol monoplane aloft over Teterboro, N. J. At 4,000 ft. he dove the tiny craft in an attempted outside loop. The plane's 40-h. p. motor would not pull out of it. Four times Pilot Ahearn climbed slowly back to make another try. On the final attempt he threw the throttle open, held the plane's nose down longer than before. The wing tore loose, fluttered away. Un- checked, the fuselage bored down into the earth...
...killer. A grand jury indicted Frank Foster, arrested in Los Angeles as onetime owner of the "belly gun" with which Lingle was shot. The same day, detectives arrested one Jack Zuta, Moran-Aiello gangster, suspected instigator of the murder. Soon released, Zuta was being given "safe conduct" through the loop district in a detective lieutenant's car, when three men opened fire on him. A street car motorman was killed. While the detective fought it out with the assailants, Zuta fled, unhurt, to hide from police and gunmen alike...