Word: ryans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Johnny Goldsmith (Lowell) and John White (Winthrop) are the guards, Ted Nelson (Winthrop) is the center, and Brad Ryan (Dudley) and Bob Crichton (Eliot) are the forwards...
...intramural athletics, the individual high scorers in House basketball were disclosed. Johnny Goldsmith of Lowell took top honors with 227 points for the season. The runner-up, Bob Crichton of Eliot was far behind with 164 points. Third place in the standings was taken by Dudley's Brad Ryan with 163 tallies...
...jaunty, 6 ft. ex-city detective and wiretapping expert named Kenneth Ryan (no kin to Clen) had been picked up. The mayor himself had broken him down in his City Hall office; $10,000 worth of telephone and tapping equipment had been found in the detective's Yonkers home. A plot was afoot, said O'Dwyer, to listen in on the telephones of several score of city officials (including his) and some big wheels in the Midwest. A prominent someone had given Ryan...
...that morning, after long questioning, Tapper Ryan asked permission to use a ladies' washroom near the mayor's office. Leaving his hat and coat on a chair, the tap expert beat it out a back window of City Hall and got clean away. While the cops bayed after him, Mayor O'Dwyer brought in the "someone" named by Tapper Ryan. This turned out to be a lawyer and private eye named John Broady, who, as it happens, works for none other than do-gooder Clendenin John Ryan and years before had gathered evidence for Ryan...
This week Bill O'Dwyer and the rest of the pros handed the case over to the grand jury. Tapper Ryan, who surrendered after 48 hours, was indicted. Rich Man Ryan was questioned by the grand jury. Nobody had actually accused the chubby amateur of anything. They had just roughed him up some. New York City will elect a mayor this November and Tammany, it appeared, was bent on wising up simon-pures like Clen Ryan...