Word: reeding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opening night the jury seemed to have been packed by an astute pressagent. A verdict of "Not Guilty" was returned by twelve good men & true including Jack Dempsey, Colonel John Reed Kilpatrick of Madison Square Garden and Edward J. Reilly, the Brooklyn lawyer who failed to get Richard Bruno Hauptmann acquitted. In the play's first week, less celebrated jurors convicted beauteous Actress Nolan only once. Author Rand is prepared for either decision. If the defendant is acquitted, the judge berates the jury for a bad decision. If she is convicted, defense asks for a new trial, the judge grants...
Died. William T. Reed. 70. president of Larus & Bro. Co. (Edgeworth tobacco) and of Reed Tobacco Company; suddenly, of a heart attack, at a family dinner attended by his good friend Senator Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia; in Richmond...
...another fight which will be fought the same day as the Baer v. Louis engagement with equal significance to prizefight enthusiasts was receiving no ballyhoo at all. This was the fight between Colonel John S. Hammond, board chairman and principal stockholder of Madison Square Garden Corp., and Colonel John Reed Kilpatrick, president and lesser stockholder, for control of the No. 1 sports-promoting organization...
...vice-presidency in 1932, bought control in 1934, had himself made board chairman. His principal interest remains hockey, not prizefights. A one-time All-America Yale footballer who enlisted in the Army in 1916, got the Croix de Guerre and the Distinguished Service Medal during the War, John Reed Kilpatrick was put in as president of the Garden in 1933, has been bucking Colonel Hammond ever since the latter became board chairman. Last year Madison Square Garden did not run at a loss as it did the year before. That it has nonetheless lost most of its prestige in pugilism...
...Reed E. Peggram '35 of Dorchester has been awarded the medal of the Comite France-Amerique of France for a declamation in French...