Word: trios
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long in telling the police the whole story. He and a man named Pace had been living with Mrs. Coll. They had been supporting themselves by petty stickups until Mrs. Coll. accustomed to doughtier deeds, urged them to "give up this five-and-ten-cent-store business." Thereupon the trio tried to abduct a jeweler, who surprised them by running swiftly down the street instead of getting in their car. Pace went flying after him, wildly firing a revolver. The jeweler escaped unscathed, but a youthful bystander named Mollie Schwartz lucklessly and fatally stopped one of the slugs...
...Czar Reid specialized in parties. Their companies (which also included Diamond Match and National Biscuit) waxed great but under less exciting management. Today the tin plate trade points to the bulky, genial, 200-lb. president of McKeesport Tin Plate as its only character who even remotely approaches the legendary trio of Moore, Reid & Leeds. Edwin Robert Crawford learned steel as an auditor but instead of picking the high road of promotion to glory, he built his own plant in 1902. McKeesport grew up to be one of the largest independent makers of plate. Individualistic, patriarchal to employes, President Crawford proudly...
...Yuma desert in Arizona, Metro-Goldyn Mayer has strung out an exciting story of the white woman who is charmed by the call of the desert and a wily philandering Arab in the person of Ramon Navarro. The story is old, the treatment is older, and not even a trio of the best second-rate stars in Culver City can give any more glamour to the exhausted Sahara, but withal "The Barbarian" now playing at the University Theatre in the Square is entertaining in a mild harmless...
...large part in General Johnson's later life. One was the board's chairman, Mr. Baruch. The other was George Nelson Peek of Moline, Ill., who had spent 25 years with plow-making concerns in the Midwest. Meeting for the first time under Wartime pressure, this trio found that they all thought and acted pretty much alike about their joint problems. Each spoke his mind bluntly. Each dug hard for facts. Each could put his theories into practice. A three-cornered friendship, Baruch-Johnson-Peek, was formed under Democratic President Wilson which 15 years later became the cornerstone...
...Intercollegiate Polo Championship in New York tomorrow night the Varsity malletmen will meet a strong Princeton trio in their first-round match as the result of the draw, which was announced yesterday...