Word: madison
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...just as hard as we fought Hoover. We'll come down harder than ever." Meanwhile a farmers' march to Washington for the opening of Congress was also in the making last week. One thousand "delegates" were expected at the Capitol to petition for a mortgage moratorium. In Madison County, Nebraska, where 25 trucks were hired for a six-day trip, farmers were advised to bring "plenty of blankets and money...
Sued. Norman Wadsworth Harris, vice president of Chicago's Harris Trust & Savings Bank, only son of Board Chairman Albert Wadsworth Harris: by one James G. Clark; for $300,000; in Chicago. The Clark charge: When he came home one July midnight last year to Madison, Wis., to find Harris with baggage and Mrs. Clark,. Harris agreed to pay $200,000 in trust for Clark's two children, $500 a month for life to Clark. A month later Mrs. Clark divorced him in Reno, six months later the payments stopped. Moving to dismiss the action, Banker Harris' attorney said: "Shocking...
ABOUT THE MURDER OF THE CIRCUS QUEEN?Anthony Abbott?Covici, Friede ($2). Though Thatcher Colt alone smells murder on the flying rings under Madison Square's big top, the D. A. makes no protest, even when a pact is made with the old Ubangi witch doctor. Dark basement scenes?throat slitting?and a few nice weapons for the crime museum...
Central--"Madison Square Garden." Zazu Pitts and Jack Oakie...
Oldtime patrons of Manhattan's National Horse Show occupied their boxes at Madison Square Garden as usual last week but there were times when they seemed to shiver slightly. At times the 47th show looked like a rodeo, at times like a sham cavalry battle. The Garden shook with the clatter of rough riders, trick riding, polo, mounted basketball, and police squads knocking one another's hats off with sticks. The National Horse Show Association's new president, J. Spencer...