Word: phil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Russ Allen, Bob Barkin, Jim Gaffney, Charley Kessler, Henry Russell, and Ben Smith, all linemen and Chief Boston, Phil Brooks, Rick Hedblom. Howie Lewenstein, and Verne Struck backs, all had perfect attendance reports...
...Milwaukee record but by his leadership in the U. S. Conference of Mayors, the Great Lakes Harbor Association and the League of Wisconsin Municipalities, the new alliance seems to open the way toward the U. S. Senate, where he would one day like to sit. Ominously, however, Governor Phil La Follette had not, up to this week, opened his mouth on the subject of Hoan for Mayor...
...Marion County Jail in Indianapolis. One was a mild-mannered, bespectacled Kentucky feudist named George W. Barrett, first man sentenced to death under the new Federal law which makes the killing of a U. S. officer a mandatory capital offense by hanging. The other was jovial, mastiff-jowled Phil Hanna, an Illinois farmer...
...this Federal hanging in a State which adopted the electric chair in 1913, the U. S. Government had to supply all the equipment. Since no official was familiar with the finer points of the hangman's technique, Phil Hanna was called to do the job for nothing. Some 50 years ago Hanna was shocked by the spectacle of a bungled hanging. Thereupon he took up hanging as a hobby, experimented with plow lines and straw dummies. When he perfected a foolproof method, he volunteered his services to any State that needed...
...general idea of "On Your Toes" is that there is something very amusing about the Russian ballet and there were very few in last night's audience who didn't think so by eleven o'clock. Phil Dolan, the third in a succession of hoofing Dolans, emerges as a very aesthetic music professor in a WPA extension university, but his basic urge for nimble footing of the jazzier sort will not be sublimated. With one of his pupils he creates a modern ballet which in a burst of inspiration they entitle "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue." In attempting...