Word: rans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Louisiana elections are won and lost in the newspapers. When Candidate Wilson ran strongly last week, his votes feathered the cap of the New Orleans Item, edited by Marshall Ballard, "intellectual roughneck.'' When Candidate Wilson admitted defeat and withdrew, leaving Candidate Long with an enormous lead over impotent Governor Simpson and obviating a second primary, that was triumph for the New Orleans Item and The Shreveport Times, published by aristocratic Colonel Robert Ewing. Governor Simpson's trouncing by Candidate Long was a bitter trouncing for the famed New Orleans Times-Picayune...
...closed its hearings at Boston last week. Summing up, Navy men blamed Coast Guardsmen, who blamed Navy men, for the collision in which either a) the destroyer Paulding, scouting at top speed for rum-boats, gored the rising submarine 54, or b) the S-4 "ran into the Paulding." Evidence showed: that the Paulding's inexperienced lookout had mistaken the S-4's splashing periscope for a fishnet buoy; that the Navy had not notified the Coast Guard that submarines were operating on the Provincetown trial course. With regard to the failure to rescue S-4 survivors, the most notable...
Swami. Munkund LaL Ghosh and Basu Kumar Ragchi, swart swamis, ran a school for ladies in Los Angeles, Calif. They took their pupils to the peak of a neighboring mountain where the atmosphere was such that "heaven vibrations" and "love control" were easy, and fat reduction a frolic. The regular fee was $35, but several clients were moved to rounder numbers. Fortnight ago, the irate husband of one client whipped Swami Lal Ghosh...
Complacently treading his Brooklyn "beat," Patrolman Salvatore Di Lorenzo, one year "on the force," heard the broken screams of a woman frightened & helpless. He ran-into the apartment of Mrs. Adelaide Lambert. Her two-year-old daughter, she cried at him, was choking to death from diphtheria...
Students who would suit themselves ran into more difficulties last week. Suppressed youths...