Word: schmidts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to Alfred C. Schmidt '42, president of the club, this is the middle link in the season which began with a jaunt to Wellesley in the fall, and will end with a hop to Smith May 24. "The Radcliffe race wasn't drawing entrants for some reason," Schmidt said, "until we got the high wheel bikes." Schmidt denied that men were willing to mount the high-wheelers because i would put them out of reach of admiring Radcliffe girls. "The pedal ratio offers a good opportunity to increase leg action for the push to Smith," he explained...
...have never sung hotcha, keep their spirituals pure and dignified. But last week in Fisk Memorial Chapel, to the dismay of diehards, Negroes stomped, slapped their thighs, plunk-a-plunked banjos and guitars, sang blues and "sinful songs." Fisk's music director, white, German-descended, Harvard-trained Harold Schmidt, 31, had resolved that "Fisk's celebration should sound of whatever is Negro. The five-day program included such commercially successful performers as guitar-playing Joshua White, work-song singer, and the gospel-swinging Golden Gate Quartet. To show what his university choir could do with serious, non-Negro...
Goals are the business of a hockey team's forward line, and the best forward line in hockey is the Boston Bruins' famed "Kraut Line": Right Wing Bobbie Bauer, Centre Milt Schmidt, Left Wing Porky Dumart, who grew up together in Kitchener, Ont., Canada's "Little Berlin." Last season (their first in the big time) they spread-eagled every other forward line in the league by scoring 61 goals-more than a third of the Bruins' total for the season...
...only to throw a scare into those fellows who owned the Times. ..." All over the U. S., workmen who had rallied to McNamara were sickened, union leaders went into hiding. James McNamara was sentenced to San Quentin for life. His brother served ten years. A fellow dynamiter named Matthew Schmidt also got life. Thirty-eight International Trade Union officials went to prison...
Listening to other labor prisoners long-windedly complaining of the frame-ups that had put them in prison, Schmidt used to say, "Thank God, Jim, we are guilty." Bits of his story-the"true story" of the McNamara case-filtered out to different people, each having a fragment, like the scattered parts of a jigsaw puzzle. Last week, after 30 years in prison, death came also to the dynamiter...