Word: midwesterners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York City's rogues' gallery Trooper Turnbull identified his abductors as midwestern bank robbers named Harry Brunette and Merle Vandenbush. Because they had carried him across State lines, breaking the "Lindbergh Law," the Federal Bureau of Investigation was notified...
Died. Clarence B. ("Herschie") Herschberger, 60, famed oldtime (1894, 1896-98) University of Chicago fullback; by his own hand (gas); in Chicago. Chicago's only 13-letter man, Fullback Herschberger was the first Midwestern player named to Walter Camp's All-America football team (1898), first footballer to be x-rayed after an injury, reputedly first to spiral a punt, never weighed over...
Trouble between Colonel Schick and Dictograph's Chairman Archie Moulton Andrews began in 1934 after the Chicago World's Fair. Promoter Andrews, who had had permission to sell the Dry Shaver at the Fair along with his own Lektrolite cigaret lighter, claimed Midwestern distribution rights. Colonel Schick denied the claim. Irate Promoter Andrews proceeded to work out and manufacture in Stamford, Conn., not far from the Schick plant, a rival electric razor called the Packard Lektro-Shaver. Colonel Schick sued Dictograph for infringement of patent. Mr. Andrews, who owns 20 shares of Schick stock, replied by bringing suit...
...settled back into publishing harness and competition with Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick's Tribune was Chicago's decision at the polls to limit its McCormick-fostered daylight saving time to summer only (see p. 26). This return restored to the News the normal advantage of a Midwestern evening paper over its morning rival on Washington news and final New York stock quotations...
...better than 2-to-1 Chicagoans plumped for the third proposition, to restore their city to a normal Midwestern schedule...