Word: schmidts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years ago the ten colleges in the Pacific Coast Conference hired a former FBI agent to keep their football "pure." But onetime G-Man Edwin Atherton, though he ruled some 50 players ineligible, never took the kind of step his successor, Victor O. Schmidt, did. Schmidt sleuthed campuses, found evidence that coaches and alumni were breaking rules in entertaining and recruiting star high-school athletes for conference teams. He thereupon fined every college in the conference last week. Oregon State College got off lightest: its fine was $25. The biggest was slapped on the best team: U.C.L.A., the conference champion...
EMERSON P. SCHMIDT Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America Washington...
...plot was tailor-made: two Navy veterans, cruising the Caribbean in a 75-foot yacht, acquired a sloe-eyed little belly dancer from Toledo. Her name was Patricia Schmidt, but she had wiggled her way along the honky-tonk circuit from Chicago to Trinidad as "Satira." When she moved aboard, to share Mee's cabin, his pal Charles Jackson obligingly moved to another. One day Mee told her to pack up; his wife was coming down from Chicago. They fought, Patricia shot Mee, and a few days later he died...
...apologies to the Crockers, and a feeling of pity for the citizens of that Hollywood community who evicted them. Such an act is disgraceful. ... I hope the Crockers will not judge our judicial system by the Aryan decision of Judge Ruben S. Schmidt...
Five Malmo elephants also found a loyal friend in their trainer, Hugo Schmidt, former employee of the German-owned Carl Hagenbeck circus. When Sweden's Government ordered the elephants sold as alien property, Hugo promptly turned them loose on Malmo's streets. Running wild, they broke lampposts, smashed windows right and left and generally terrified the inhabitants until Schmidt got them rounded up. "Sweden," sobbed Trainer Schmidt as his beasts were taken in charge, "is making a great mistake. Those elephants love each other. If they are parted, they will...