Word: mikes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year minus a temporary $5,000 slash) and potentially one of the most useful. Dr. O'Shea has been a public schoolman for 46 years. He was appointed Superintendent in 1924, succeeding Dr. William L. Ettinger who was politically ousted by Mayor John F. ("Red Mike") Hylan. Dr. O'Shea is kindly, gentle, petulant when criticized, sometimes in poor health and now poor in eyesight. A good Roman Catholic, he often was closeted with New York's Patrick Cardinal Hayes. Superintendent O'Shea has publicly said: "I am no glutton for power." The two men most...
...slugged and when the ballots were counted the local Republican leader had been ousted, the Democratic chief went hopping out of Tammany Hall to do plain & fancy fence-mending, the Fusion party had a bad scare thrown into it from the White House. Not since the days of "Red Mike'' Hylan had the political affairs of the nation's No. 1 city been so thoroughly scrambled...
...producer; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. A onetime bond salesman, he, with Albert Boni, formed Boni & Liveright, Inc., which later became Liveright Inc., now bankrupt. Some of his authors: Eugene O'Neill, Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson, : Emil Ludwig, Robinson Jeffers, Ben ; Hecht, Hendrik Van Loon. Died. Michael Joseph ("Turkey Mike") Donlin, 57, actor, oldtime baseballer; of heart disease; in Los Angeles. He was the strutting, clowning, umpire-baiting captain of the New York Giants team which, with Christy Mathewson, "Iron Man Joe" McGinnity and Roger Bresnahan shut out Philadelphia four times in the 1905 World Series...
...enveloped the strikers. One guard shot another guard's arm off by mistake. Fifteen strikers were dropped by bullets, their names a typical roster of U. S. mine labor: Louis Kromer, Steve Hrosky, George Ely, Anton Maura, Walter Ordorsky, Paul Popson, Mason Robert, George Hroska, Joe Goletz, Mike Budman, James Shannon, George Illeg, Vincent Stunga, Joseph Kromer. One fell on the railroad track, was barely dragged to safety before an oncoming freight train. For the shootings a mine boss and six guards were clapped into jail...
Married. Harold Stirling ("Mike") Vanderbilt, 49, "America's richest bachelor," yachtsman, contract bridge expert; and Gertrude L. Conaway, 32, of Philadelphia ; quietly in Manhattan...