Word: pyles
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time of his most spectacular achievement last week, dance marathons were booming all over the U. S. Promoter Crandall himself intended to start others, under slightly more stringent rules, in Buffalo, Paterson, Scranton and Harrisburg, as well as in London, Berlin and Paris, with the assistance of "Cold Cash" Pyle. Of last week's endurance fiestas, the most successful, from a mercenary standpoint, was one in Chicago with which Mr. Crandall had been invited to associate but which his Madison Square engagement antedated. Another contemporary ball was being held in upper Manhattan, for Negro couples...
...most efficient and energetic American is a weakness for parades and few obligations will keep him from stopping to watch one go by. Yet often processions that are arranged for his sole benefit meet with the most complete neglect, as witness the substantial deficit remaining to Mr. Pyle after the completion of his cross country "bunion derby". In Nebraska another attempted parade has just fallen through. This time it is the calvacade of indignant farmers in autos that was expected to descend upon Kansas City and impress upon the Republican Convention gathered there a sense of their wrongs. The leaders...
...Chicago Tribune published a suggestion that C. C. Pyle, who promoted the cross-continent "bunion derby," should be engaged to manage the "crusade" and make it a "high class and well organized parade...
...cars, others limping with chafed feet or with the bunions from which the troupe derived its title, jogged through Manhat- tan to Madison Square Garden where, after 20 miles on a board track, they finished a transcontinental (3,422.3 mile) marathon. C. C. ("Cash and Carry") Pyle and his associate W. H. ("Easy") Pickens con- gratulated Winner Andrew Payne of Claremore, Okla., promised to pay him $25,000, promised John Salo of Passaic, N. J., $10,000 for finishing second, 15 hours behind Payne, promised Phillip Granville...
Three months ago the runners started from Los Angeles. In front of them rode C. C. Pyle in a motor bungalow accompanied by his protege, Red Grange. Behind the bungalow came a broadcasting car which cost $1,000 a week to operate. Behind the broadcasting car, before much time had passed, came sheriffs on motorcycles. Soon the bungalow was attached for debts. At every town runners quit. Red Grange, barker of a side show which Pyle set up in a tent wherever he stopped failed to make money. Pyle gave the runners $1.50 a day for food, put cots...