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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After midnight one night last week, three cars sped up to the gate of the high-walled U. S. Naval Base in Brooklyn, N. Y., where are stored the Atlantic fleet's supplies. Out leaped six men. A guard felt the tickly touch of revolver muzzles, swung open the gate. Into the wide Naval Depot yard swept the cars. The guard was forced to unlock the door of the eight-story main building. Then the raiders trussed him up, plastered his mouth with adhesive tape, locked him in the Depot detention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Jobs oj the Week | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...model for it. The vogue has been so successful that such wildly inferior pictures as "Broadway Scandals," "Jazz Heaven," and "The Song of Love," while far from smash hits, seem likely to show a profit merely because they meet that popular demand for song and dance with a touch of the Laugh, Mrs. Clown, Laugh manner...

Author: By Richard WATTS Jr., | Title: Talkies Even More Uniform Than Silent Productions--Backstage, College Lead | 11/23/1929 | See Source »

...with satisfaction that we note how greatly the number of participants in sports of an individual nature exceeds the number in team sports. For example, 312 different men took part in organized intramural tennis this fall. This number does not include those who played occasionally. Touch football is the closest team rival. The men who played in the organized Business School, Inter-Fraternity, Inter-Dormitory and Independent touch football leagues number 201. Intramural football is third with 173 of which 98 played class and 75 Freshman inter-dormitory football. Then follow track with 76, Freshman inter-dormitory crew with...

Author: By A. W. Samborski, | Title: Very Successful Fall Intramural Season Draws to a Conclusion | 11/23/1929 | See Source »

...completion of the remaining few touch football contests will terminate the fall intramural season. Already plans are under way for a very active winter program. Inter-fraternity indoor baseball and graduate basketball will begin on Monday, December 2. Within a fortnight the Department of Physical Education will issue a conveniently sized booklet of all the winter intramural schedules. The winter program will take on a very definite aspect with the appearance of this pamphlet...

Author: By A. W. Samborski, | Title: Very Successful Fall Intramural Season Draws to a Conclusion | 11/23/1929 | See Source »

Morris II won the Business School touch football championship by defeating Chase II 12 to 0 yesterday. The men in the winning lineup were Captain R. C. Jackson 1G.B., C. R. Barrow 1G.B., A. F. Hook 1G.B., C. A. Valentine 1G.B., D. S. Wentworth 1G.B., M. K. Hall 1G.B., and W. G. Kelly 1G.B...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Morris II Wins Championship | 11/20/1929 | See Source »

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