Word: parkers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League. Both teams boast a 1.000 per cent average, but the Lions have played five games as compared to Harvard's two. Princeton leads in team batting with a percentage of .333 with the Crimson in second place with .232. Individual batting honors go to Dud Parker of Yale with a three game mark of .545. Columbia with a team fielding average of .972 leads in this department while Harvard is next to last with...
...Parker & petitioners volunteered to furnish the Senate with evidence to prove that Huey P. Long...
...personal stingaree Petitioner Parker wired Vice President Garner: "Senator Long knows neither truth, honesty nor decency. His black record is nationally known. Psychiatrists have stated in my presence that he is a dangerous paranoiac. . . . The Senate should have him permanently incarcerated in Washington. . . . He is the greatest menace to American decency and civilization...
When more Louisiana petitions kept arriving this week in the Senate, it became clear that Citizen Parker was in deadly earnest. And when John Parker is in earnest he can fight, even at 70. A slim, wiry, suntanned Louisiana aristocrat, scion of wealthy Mississippi planters, one of the South's richest cotton factors, he is the antithesis of a red-headed ragamuffin from Shreveport. Before the turn of the century, he headed the New Orleans Cotton Exchange. A lifelong foe of civic indecency, he started his political career in 1913 by hiring the New Orleans Athenaeum and lashing local...
...Governor Parker's greatest single achievement was breaking by armed force the murderous grip of the Ku Klux Klan on Louisiana...