Word: wade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thereafter Judge Nields had to wade on through 826 affidavits offered by the company, denying vigorously that it had used threats or debauchery to entrench its own union...
Asked Associated Press Correspondent Wade Werner...
...Melodrama (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) opens spectacularly with the General Slocum disaster out of which are tossed two orphaned boys into Manhattan's East Side. One is studious while the other shoots craps. Years later the student has become district attorney, the crapshooter a top-money gambler. If Jim Wade (William Powell) is straight as a die, Blackie Gallagher (Clark Gable) is crooked as his own dice. Gallagher's sleek mistress (Myrna Loy) loves him honestly, leaves him when he refuses to make her an honest woman. In Harlem's Cotton Club she falls in love with District...
...When Wade runs for governor a disgruntled underling (Thomas Jackson) threatens to expose his wife as the onetime mistress of Gambler Gallagher. When Gallagher coolly kills the would-be tattler, righteous District Attorney Wade gets him convicted, goes triumphantly to Albany as governor. Gallagher refuses his offer to commute the death sentence, marches grimly to the chair. Next day Governor Wade resigns...
Following the debate in Lowell House the award of the T. Jefferson Coolidge prize was made to Asa Emory Phillips, Jr. '34 of Washington, D. C., president of the Debating Council and speaker in the Lee Wade and Boylston Prize speaking contests. The T. Jefferson Coolidge prize is awarded annually to the man who prepares the best speech for the tryouts in the Triangular debate. Honorable mention was given to George Gore '34 and Seymour M. Peyser...