Word: scouts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington, D. C., the police radio commanded: "Scout car No. 10 go to Georgia Ave. & Taylor St. Police being attacked." The message came over Scout car No. 10's receiving set but Policemen Smooh and Renner were too busy to respond. They were the police being attacked at Georgia Ave. & Taylor...
...Hadley, Edwin Marshall--b. Peoria, Ill. Oct. 14, 1872, eighth in lineal descent from Edward Fitz Randolph, from Nottinghamshire to N. E. 1630. With others organized the Dudley Coffee Co. (importers) and the Ceylon Planters Tea Co. (and many others) One of organizers Ill. Reserve Militia. Chicago Boy Scout Committeeman. Winner many athletic trophies. Contbr, to mags., orator, after dinner speaker. Republican. Reformed Episcopalian...
Dirk von Punessen, 24, son of Holland's Baron Henri von Duesseldorf Punessen, titled "King Scout" six years ago when he organized the Boy Scout troops of Europe, attended a Scout meeting in Milwaukee. Attempting to force a bullet into a pistol, he braced the muzzle against his stomach and pushed the cartridge base against a projection on the wall. The cartridge exploded, critically wounding King Scout Punessen...
Died. Clarence Henry Howard, 68, longtime (1904-29) president of Commonwealth Steel Co. before it was merged with General Steel Castings Corp.; of heart disease; in Boston. Philanthropist, altruistic employer. Boy Scout council member, he once refused a $2,000,000 contract to make shells, believing war barbarous...
...your issue of Oct. 12 you mentioned that Boy Scouts on an occasion several weeks ago followed Al Capone from the field at the Northwestern-Nebraska football game where he was reported to have been booed by the Scouts. Since this original item was published which doubtless arose from a United Press news dispatch, we have made careful inquiry. The sum of the evidence from responsible Scout officials in Chicago and Evanston is to the effect that the Boy Scouts were seated on the opposite side of the Field from Capone; they were there as guests of Northwestern...