Word: vaulting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...happens to be a leader of the Radical Revolutionary Party unalterably opposed to President Mendieta and Mayor Miguel Mariano Gomez, walked inconspicuously down the steps of the City Hall and away as if to lunch. Quarter of an hour later police in the corridors heard cries from the Treasury vault, rushed in to open it. Out popped the City cashier and three assistants with a tall tale...
...being made out from trials being held every afternoon. The schedule of events will be: Wednesday--100 meter dash, 110-meter high hurdles, 200 meter low hurdles, 400 and 800 meter runs. (The trials and finals for these events will start at 2 o'clock). Thursday--pole vault and high jump. (These events will be run off in the old cage, starting at 2 o'clock). Gold medals are to be awarded to all first and second place winners...
...Administration's pet banking villain right inside the Treasury. At a Washington conference of national bank examiners President Francis Marion Law of the American Bankers Association politely suggested that perhaps the periodic examinations were so strict that bankers feared to do anything except sit on the vault...
...Oceanside, L. I., Herbert Hannigan crawled into a concrete vault eight feet underground, lay there 72 days, set a new world's record, crawled out to be a hero. Waiting for him were 2,000 spectators and a police detective. The spectators surged through the ropes, forgot to pay their 25? fees, left Herbert Hannigan in debt for his burial expenses. Up stepped the detective with an old larceny warrant to take Herbert Hannigan to jail...
...thousand San Franciscans attended his funeral in the Masonic cemetery, arranged at a reputed cost of $10,000 by the Pacific Club. Unfortunately, there was no money left for a monument. Last year Jesuits bought the cemetery and the remains of Norton I were removed to a vault. Last week San Franciscans, most of whom knew of the mad old man, his plumed silk hat and gold-ferruled cane only by hearsay, turned out by the hundreds to rebury him at Woodlawn Memorial Park in San Mateo County...