Word: sullivans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Patrick A. ("Paddy") Roche, oldtime fight promoter, proprietor of the famed Red Carpet Saloon (first Manhattan cafe to have a carpet), referee of the bout in 1889 when John L. Sullivan defeated Jake Kilrain after 75 bare-knuckle rounds at Richburg, Miss.; of heart disease; at the Hotel Breslin, Manhattan...
...band played loud at a Vanderbilt lawn party in Portsmouth, R. I., and the horses of the approaching Vanderbilt carriage shied, bowled over two ladies near the gate. Out of the coach leaped Newport's Mayor Mortimer A. Sullivan and Vice President Charles Curtis, stood the ladies on their feet again...
...Last one: Nov. 20, 1902, at Sullivan; Negro James Dillard, charged with rape. Indiana has had 24 lynchings-14 Negroes, ten whites...
Major General Arturo de Echona and a ring of other potentates and sportsmen in Colombia's commercial centre, Barranquilla, stood keenly intent last week around a table covered with a red cloth. At the table Manhattan's marble champion Vinnie Sullivan, 13, who is making a South American tour, gave an exhibition of championship aggie-cracking...
...Wiley left the Department of Agriculture he kept a jealous eye on the Food, Drug & Insecticide Administration, continually charged it with lax enforcement. When last month he appeared before a Senate Committee investigating that Administration (see p. 34), Senators grieved to see him decrepit. They remembered him as Mark Sullivan in Our Times describes him: "His large head capping the pedestal of broad shoulders and immense chest, his salient nose shaped like the bow of an icebreaker, and his piercing eyes...