Word: washroom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...editor of the offending issue was a 160-lb. student named Dan Anderson of Salt Lake City. Before he knew it he was hauled out of his office by "Bus" Bergmann and told to take his hands out of his pockets. He declined and woke up in a University washroom. Editor Anderson had loyal "Bus" Bergmann arrested for assault and battery, at which point Heloise and Drake began to make headlines. "Bus" Bergmann, insisting that he was contending "for a lady's honor," was given a suspended sentence of 15 days...
...office in a freshly-painted elevator. Governor Landon's escort took him around to the plaza in front of the Capitol. The crowd got a good look as. with more smiles and hat-waving, he trotted up the long steps. Once inside, he was led to a washroom. As he emerged, there appeared at another door, on the arm of his son John, the man he had come to see. With warm smile and outstretched hand, he advanced...
Richard Loeb died after being slashed 56 times with a razor by another convict in a prison washroom at the Illinois Penitentiary at Stateville. Held for murder, Prisoner James Day, a bantamweight larcenist of 23, swore he had killed in self-defense, told as foul a tale as has ever come over prison walls. He said that Loeb was an autocrat behind bars. As head of the prison school, he could parcel out soft jobs to fellow inmates. He ate in his cell and, by transferring sums from their well-stocked bank accounts, he and Leopold could get guards...
...political debts which Huey Long thought Candidate Roosevelt had contracted. So Huey Long, the ex-drummer, was a pariah instead of a leader in the most powerful Administration in U. S. history. All he had, besides Louisiana, was the right to clown, to get beaten in a Sands Point washroom, to filibuster and to hurl invective. Yet last week the U. S. realized that save for Franklin Roosevelt, no other public figure could by his death produce so great a change in U. S. politics...
...Bottkol 3G; William B. Horton 1G.B.; C. Malcolm Watkins '34; John A. Bovey, Jr. '35; Kermit R. Kimball '35; Carl L. Billman '35; and Theodore C. Uebel 1G have hurled a gauntlet of defiance at Lousiana's Kingfish. Determined to undermine the pressure brought to bear by The Washroom Senator in his recent address supporting the Patman Bonus Bill, the Ten Thousand despatched a telegram to the President urging his veto. At a late hour last night the Harvard Host, all owning allegiance to Eliot House, had received no answer to their communication. Der Kingfish could not be reached...