Word: pete
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University of Illinois' midwestern front. But the rambling campus slept fitfully, for later in the day undergraduates were to elect sophomore, junior, senior class officers. Not for some time had the political position of the fraternity cabal been challenged. But this fall, one John Granata, brother of Pete Granata, Chicago precinct captain in Morris Eller's "bloody twentieth" ward, had rallied about him the "barbarians" (non-fraternity men) to form an independent party...
Sent Home. Grover Cleveland (''Old Pete") Alexander, 42, 18 years a National League baseball pitcher, holder of the all-time league record for game-winning (373)i member of the St. Louis Cardinals; to Nebraska on full pay for the balance of the season; by Club Owner Samuel Breadon; for breaking training after he lost a game to the New York Giants. He had an edge on every other team in the league. His career's score with the Giants finally stood: Alexander 39, Giants...
...Pete Jones, Negro, for the murder of Lyle Harris, employe of Consolidated Film & Supply...
...Poughkeepsie, N. Y., nine varsity crews set themselves on the broad, current-ribbed Hudson for the biggest crew pageant of the year, the Intercollegiate. Before the start it seemed as if the winner would be either California, coached by bespectacled Carroll "Ky" Ebright, stroked by huge Pete Donlan and considered this year's greatest Western crew, or unbeaten Columbia, coached by Richard Glendon Jr., captained by Horace Davenport, considered this year's greatest Eastern crew. Cornell and the Navy were considered worth watching. Few thought there was much chance of a Wisconsin victory because, on account of late...
Like twelve fat vegetables in a soup plate, twelve great balloons nestled in Pitt Stadium at Pittsburgh. The evening light was fading as the first bag, piloted by W. A. Klikoff and Pete Lawson representing Aircraft Development Corp., slowly rose into the air and, once above the rim of the stadium, swam rapidly away in a brisk westerly wind. One after another the rest of the bags rose and floated away...