Word: vincent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...City, has received most of the Federal patronage and dislikes Tammany. Unenthusiastic over Mayor O'Brien's showing at the polls, he knew that in recent straw votes conducted by the police for Tammany, Mayor O'Brien had made a poor showing. The chances of Joseph Vincent ("Holy Joe") McKee, last year's able and economical Acting Mayor, against Fusionist La Guardia in the November elections appeared considerably better than O'Brien's. Anxious lest a Fusion victory in New York weaken the state ticket in 1934, the national ticket in 1936, Boss Farley...
Shark-shaped Cuba sizzled last week from tip to tip. Bushwhacking insurrestos raided scores of towns. Near Banes on the northeast coast insurgent workers seized a sugar mill largely owned by Vincent Astor and Percy A. Rockefeller, shut up mill executives, wives and children in their quarters, cut off electricity and water. Fifteen sugar mills in Oriente province, mostly U. S.-owned, had been seized by rampaging Cuban proletarians. In Santiago de Cuba soldiers, miners and Communist agitators heckled Manager Fred Northcross of Bethlehem Steel's Daiquiri Mines until he shouted: "We are closing down-permanently!" In Havana harassed...
...follows: Jonathan E. England '35, William F. Nichols '34, Richard M. Gummere '34, Captain William Wemple '34, Richard C. Johnson '36, John Dorman '36, Culvin F. Morrill '34, Philo F. Willetts '36, Delevan C. Clos '35, George F. Stork '35, Edward H. Robbins '35 and Frank W. Vincent...
...shot another guard's arm off by mistake. Fifteen strikers were dropped by bullets, their names a typical roster of U. S. mine labor: Louis Kromer, Steve Hrosky, George Ely, Anton Maura, Walter Ordorsky, Paul Popson, Mason Robert, George Hroska, Joe Goletz, Mike Budman, James Shannon, George Illeg, Vincent Stunga, Joseph Kromer. One fell on the railroad track, was barely dragged to safety before an oncoming freight train. For the shootings a mine boss and six guards were clapped into jail...
...Last month he got $1,000 for eight jumps at the California State Fair at Sacramento. On he went to Chicago for the International Air Races, spent the whole sum on four new 'chutes. Following the races he attended a party at the South Bend, Ind. home of Vincent Bendix (automobile and airplane parts). Another guest, Charles T. Otto, offered to fly him and a girl friend back across Lake Michigan's tip to Chicago in an autogiro. The 'giro never reached shore...