Word: walls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tommy Davis, the crimson helmeted team's captain, will swap positions at number 2 with Al Dillingham, who formerly played at back. The new No. 2, endowed with greater weight, is expected to prove himself worthy of the position so long wall filled by his captain...
...Osage Hills-presumably to hide with the Texas fugitives. One other Lansing fugitive, Charles Clifton McArthur, burglar and murderer, was captured as he entered Kansas City on a trolley car, having walked 35 miles from the prison with an ankle bone fractured in the jump from the wall. Bob Brady was shot and killed by a posse near Paola, Kans...
Died, William H. Wall. 58. longtime private policeman who helped capture Leon Czolgosz (President McKinley's assassin); of automobile accident injuries; in New York City. After the capture Czolgosz was hurled to the floor of a carriage where Wall sat on him with drawn revolvers during the ride to the Buffalo jail...
...brokerage house and he swore he was through forever. He even wrote a big-seller, My Adventures with Your Money, exposing all the tricks of his trade. But back he came and this time for big money. To inspire faith among ignorant investors, his "financial" sheet, The Wall Street Iconoclast, attacked margin trading on the New York Stock Exchange, advised widows & orphans to keep their money in savings banks, recommended the purchase of sound listed securities. But the Iconoclast also managed to keep such Rice stocks as Idaho Copper, General Mining and Colombia Emerald constantly in his readers' minds...
...setting down the Terriers in the game that preceded the Varsity tilt and emerged from the contest on the long side of an 18-0 score. The quartet composed of Ford, Ecker, Carr and Biledeau kept the red light glowing and had the opposition backed up against the wall during the entire encounter...