Word: weaver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Camden, N. J., Francis B. Weaver, president of the State Board of Tax Appeals, sought to demonstrate in court how his wife choked him by yanking his necktie. "Like this," he said. He jerked his tie tight, choked, sank gasping to the floor. Soon he was unconscious. An attorney cut the necktie, revived Francis B. Weaver...
...take its share of blame for the Morro Castle disaster.* Notably concerned by the Bureau's apparent inefficiency was President Roosevelt. Last week, as the first step in its reorganization, he drafted a famed seaman to take what the Bureau's Director Joseph B. Weaver called "the most important job of its kind in the world." The job: supervising inspector of the Bureau's 2nd District (New York, Philadelphia, Albany, New Haven). The man: Captain George Fried of the S. S. Washington...
...line the balcony; and the debutante and her parents, arrayed by Mr. Patou, greet some dismal but socially presentable friends. Beneath all this gay exterior a tragedy is taking place. The young musician, not realizing what he has done to the debutante, leaves her to marry the socialite, Jimmy Weaver, the third. Quite a noble conception...
Rookies. Training camps, run primarily for advertising, serve a useful purpose as a proving ground for young players. Biggest of this year's rookies is Jim Weaver, 6 ft. 6 in. pitcher for the St. Louis Browns. Most expensive is the Chicago Cubs' young Outfielder George Stainback, bought for $75,000 from Los Angeles. The Philadelphia Phillies' Out fielder Henry Oana is the only Hawaiian in the league. The New York Yankees have Floyd Newkirk whose pitching hand, like that of famed Mordecai Brown, onetime Chicago Cub, has only three fingers. Luckiest rookie was Glenn Chapman...
...last week is the second title that ferocious, thick-shouldered Lou Brouillard has held in the two and a half years that he has been a professional fisticuffer. Born in Saint Eugene. Quebec, he was moved to Danielson, Conn., when he was nine. Three years ago. a peaceable weaver in a Connecticut cotton mill, he went to watch an amateur boxing tournament, substituted in a lightweight bout and won it. After six months as an amateur, he turned professional. When an opponent broke two ribs on his right side, he tried boxing lefthanded. Says he: "When the ribs are cured...