Word: mccoys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...total weekly attendance of 150,000. Of British children, 83% like newsreels, 94% like military & naval scenes, 89% like shots of royalty, 88% dislike foreign dictators. British children's favorite stars in order of their popularity are Hollywood's Buck Jones, Shirley Temple, Jane Withers, Tim McCoy...
...major general and chief of air corps; Brigadier General William H. Wilson, 60. Coast Artillery, to succeed retiring Major General Fox Conner as commander of the First Army; Brigadier General Robert McCandlass Beck Jr., 59, an assistant chief of staff, to succeed retiring Major General Frank McCoy. Also upped were seven colonels to brigadiers. Average...
...Chicago a month ago Tim McCoy's Real Wild West & Rough Riders of the World was let loose with charging horses, yippiding cowboys, lassos thrown to rope in the general public. In Washington last week McCoy's broncos seemed all too sadly busted. First, F. Stewart Stranahan of Providence, R. L, with a $17,500 claim against the show, threw it into receivership. Then, padding at Stranahan's heels, a delegation of McCoy's Sioux Redmen visited Commissioner of Indian Affairs John Collier, threatened a sitdown strike against Tim McCoy unless he: 1) came through with...
After that, there were no performances at all. Restrained by court order from moving on to Baltimore, the show folded for good in Washington, a martyr to McCoy's belief that the Buffalo Bill tradition still has life...
Five-foot-eleven Colonel Timothy John Fitzgerald McCoy won his military title from years of army service, mostly among the Indians. To knowing the American Indian through & through McCoy owed his introduction to the entertainment business. Called in as a technical adviser in 1924 for the filming of The Covered Wagon, he so impressed casting directors with his vivid Western personality that he was signed up, eventually starred by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Columbia, Monogram (Beyond the Sierras, The Square Shooter, Code of the Rangers). For three seasons he was a star name in the Ringling circus. On the side...