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...around in expectation of trouble, went home, and went to bed. The last speaker was finishing his talk when a delegation of 180 policemen marched from the station a block away to break up what remained of the meeting. They stopped a short distance from the speaker's wagon. As a captain ordered the meeting to disperse, and the speaker cried out that it was a peaceable gathering, a bomb exploded in the police ranks. It wounded 67 policemen, of whom seven died. The police opened fire, killing several men and wounding 200, and the Haymarket Tragedy became...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rebel | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

...Dunster-Dudley fracas was featured by the tight pitching of John Woodward, former Yardling moundsman, who shut out the Commuters until the last inning. Dean Noyes, Bill Lipsitt, and Woodward were most efficient with the wagon-tongue for the Funsters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kirkland, Dunster Conquer Winthrop, Dudley 8-7, 8-1 in Baseball Contests | 4/27/1938 | See Source »

...foot-eleven Colonel Timothy John Fitzgerald McCoy won his military title from years of army service, mostly among the Indians. To knowing the American Indian through & through McCoy owed his introduction to the entertainment business. Called in as a technical adviser in 1924 for the filming of The Covered Wagon, he so impressed casting directors with his vivid Western personality that he was signed up, eventually starred by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Columbia, Monogram (Beyond the Sierras, The Square Shooter, Code of the Rangers). For three seasons he was a star name in the Ringling circus. On the side he owns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: The Real McCoy | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

Raymond Dennett '36, Graduate Secretary of Phillips Brooks House, revealed yesterday that the P. B. H. Station Wagon which has been employed in social work during the last year is being put up for sale. The reason for the action, Dennett stated, was that legal difficulties arose in registering the car, the University Corporation and P. B. H. both sharing its ownership...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Famed P. B. H. Station Wagon To Be Sold--License Trouble | 4/20/1938 | See Source »

...Moines, Iowa, Police Sergeant Dunagan, riding in a patrol wagon with a slot machine just seized in a raid, was surprised to see two nickels drop out. An honest officer, he played them back in, hit the jack pot. Out came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Mouthful | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

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