Word: rans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kansas, and he himself had run for the State Legislature on an anti-Klan ticket. Elected Republican Floor Leader of the House, said he, he had fought and defeated a bill legalizing the Klan. In 1926 he was elected Speaker of the House over Klan opposition. "In 1928 I ran for Governor. Although the Klan had practically passed out of existence, there was strong Klan sentiment in many of the counties and that defeated...
...Guards, Jerome Bannigan, a clubfooted, baldish young Scot who prefers to be known as George Andrew McMahon, left his home in Paddington. Author of a series of articles entitled Unmoral Girls, Vacuum Cleaner Vampires, Is Nudism Immoral? Why I Shall Not Marry, Too Old at Thirty, McMahon ran an herb shop in Netting Hill at which he tended counter in a wing collar and a long frock coat. A violent opponent of capital punishment, he had written a series of abusive letters to Home Secretary Sir John Simon. At 9 o'clock that morning a pair of Scotland Yard...
Lionel Stander is a shaggy young Jew of Russo-German descent whose sudden rise to cinematic fame in the past year can be traced, like so many others in Hollywood, principally to a misspent youth. Too independent to follow his father's profession of public accountant, he ran away from school at 14, earned his living for five years as cab driver, lifeguard, reporter, tile setter, office boy, bank clerk. Where an orderly schooling might have refined, this helter-skelter existence served to aggravate the amazing accent of an illiterate Hell's Kitchen ragamuffin which...
...chief engineer. Brother Philip is manager of the Canadian subsidiary across the Detroit River in Windsor, Ont. Brother Clinton, baby of the family, is manager of the Highland Park plant. And the Brothers Wood make money. Last week they announced that their business for the past twelve months ran 40% above the same previous period, that profits for the first half of 1936 exceeded...
...earthquake, nearly died of typhus. Meanwhile Brother Amadeo's bank, having been demolished in the earthquake, moved into Attilio's house. When he recovered from typhus, Attilio became manager and vice president of Bank of Italy's first branch in San Jose, Calif., later ran his brother's first Market Street branch in San Francisco. At once his partiality for the entertainment business showed in small loans to struggling nickelodeon houses...