Word: pecks
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...Labor is the American Federation of Government Employes. Lodge 91 of the A. F. G. E. is the union of NRA workers. Head of that union is one John L. Donovan who worked for NRA's Labor Advisory Board. Two of his superiors, Leo Wolman and Gustav Peck, had filed complaints against him. For appearance's sake, however, General Johnson hesitated to fire the head of his employes' union...
...Heart (Fox). Long the most popular romantic team in cinema, Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell last appeared together in Tess of the Storm Country two years ago. Hollywood gossip to the effect that they were separated because of objections by Miss Gaynors husband seemed confirmed when she sued Lydell Peck, Fox executive, for divorce, charged "unreasonable jealousy." Last month Miss Gaynor's divorce from Lydell Peck became final. Now in Change of Heart she and Farrell are happily reunited. Neither homely nor comely, Miss Gaynor brings to her new role all the old sentimentality which made her the screen...
...misogynists to the eyes of England's rural constabulary. The garrulity of the survivor helps police solve a murder carefully planned for three years. MURDER STALKS THE WAKELY FAMILY -August W. Derleth-Loring & Mussey ($2). The small town's mean man was stabbed just before "Judge" Peck arrived. His son, his sister, his half-brother change from suspects to victims. The "Judge's" delving into the past unearths both the cause and manner of the killing. EPILOGUE-Bruce Graeme-Lippincott ($2). A suggestion for the rest of Dickens' unfinished story of Edwin Drood...
Died. Gerald W. Peck, 47, Chicago investment banker, utilitarian and sportsman, grandson of Wisconsin's late Author-Governor George Wilbur Peck (Peck's Bad Boy); of a gunshot wound inflicted by one Tom Hollamon Sr., 67-year-old farmer, during a directors' meeting of Texas Hydro-Electric Co., of which Banker Peck was president; in Seguin, Tex. Witnesses said Hollamon appeared at the meeting to press an old claim for land flooded by a company dam, started to leave after a "friendly" conversation, wheeled, fired twice...
Score: Yale 3, Harvard 1. First period: Holmes (6.45); McClintock (7.28). Second period: Quinby (7.52). Third period: Cooke (3.32). Penalties Brown (tripping); Peck (tripping); Clement (tripping); Towle (tripping). Referees--Raymond, Hughes. Time--Three 15-minute periods...