Word: mccrackens
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Past Performance: 1) Smalltown lawyer (Paducah, 1901-05). prosecuting attorney of McCracken County (1905-09), county judge (1909-13), U. S. Representative (1913-27), unsuccessful candidate for Governor (1923), U. S. Senator (1927-39), Democratic national keynoter...
...Vengeance in Leka," described as a "bloodthirsty one-act play", written by Wycliff McCracken, student last summer under John Mason Brown '23 in the Summer School will be produced by students studying acting, stage management, and play writing...
...foot-three, a native of California. For 16 years he taught at Yale, a good part of that time as professor of English. He is much younger than Smith's William Allan Neilson and Vassar's Henry Noble McCracken, who have learned to delight their girls with clowning...
...District Attorney sought in vain for some more serious motive than the small-town newspaper feud which had been developing since jovial, backslapping, man-of-the-world McCracken went to Alturas three years ago and shortly afterward started his mimeographed daily in opposition to the 42-year-old printed weekly which motherly Mrs. French edits...
...feud had begun harmlessly enough. McCracken in the Mail twitted the Frenches with having failed to pay their light bill, having the current shut off. Once he sent Mrs. French an anonymous letter ridiculing the Plaindealer. She took it to the sheriff. Then one day Mrs. French printed a story about a Mr. & Mrs. McCracken being arrested in Reno on narcotics charges. McCracken retaliated by printing stories of various persons named French being arrested for various crimes. The afternoon before the shooting he printed one about a man named French being hanged as a horse-thief in Montana...