Word: shores
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago, at her greystone Lake Shore Drive palace and in Lake Forest, Ill. at her country home, Villa Turicum, the rest of Mrs. McCormick's private belongings were to go on sale next week. Auction gapers in Chicago were discouraged by a $10 admission fee, redeemable on the first purchase...
...present directors of Northern Indiana Public Service Co. were indicted in Crown Point, Ind. for embezzlement, larceny and conspiracy to commit a felony. The indictments were not divulged, but it was understood that Insull Jr. and his associates were charged with looting Northern Indiana's treasury to shore up the crumbling walls of the Insull holding companies. This particular Insull echo resulted from the trial of Howard Duncan, onetime assistant treasurer, who was indicted for embezzlement of $1,500. On the witness stand last autumn he calmly admitted stealing not $1,500 but $132,000, most of which...
...Bailey underwent two delicate trepanning operations. "Eddie" Shore, one of the least malicious of hockey players, sat miserably in his room at home, waiting to hear whether Bailey would live or die. Both he and Horner were suspended by the National Hockey League pending investigation of the case. League officials dug into the whole question of whether or not hockey violence had gotten out of bounds. A seasoned spectator in a strange U. S. city does not have to be told whether he is watching a professional or collegiate hockey game. At a glance he can tell...
...Myles Lane played for a time with the New York Rangers. The Rangers let him go to the Boston Bruins who in turn relegated him to their "farm" team, the Cubs. Last week Lane played again with the Bruins in place of the injured and ousted Eddie Shore. Harvard's George Owen Jr. also played with the Bruins...
Another lynching was done in Maryland last week, this time not on the ragged Eastern Shore but in the proud old city of Baltimore. The Baltimore Civic Opera Company was responsible when it put on a one-act affair called Swing Low. In it Tenor A. Roy Williams, blacked up as a Negro, was making harmless love to Soprano Elsie Craft (also in blackface) when an operatic mob appeared to drag him offstage to a hanging...