Word: wooded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interested in knowing that it was not taken from a homicidal striker, but was taken from an A & P store clerk, Maurice Needier,No. 2700 Market Street, who was returning peacefully from a picnic where he had used his machete to cut wood for a fire. Mr. Needier is now under indictment for carrying concealed weapons...
Fifteen miles from Patna all the travelers were shocked into full consciousness, many of them for only a few seconds. With a thunder of shattered wood, a shriek of torn steel, the train and seven cars took a head dive over the embankment, settled in a chaotic mess. The first two cars were completely telescoped, buried beneath the two that followed. From the two rear cars, which had stayed miraculously on the rails, leaped frenzied Europeans to behold a scene described by one as "like any battlefield." Relief workers rushing to the spot dragged more than 100 dead and mangled...
...hoped for 2,000,000 members, declared that strikes and picketing would not be included in the organization's policy. And last week John Lewis was taking more than official pleasure in preparing to welcome into C.I.O. the 100,000 lumberjacks and mill hands in the Federation of Wood-workers, hitherto a unit of A. F. of L.'s Carpenters & Joiners, headed by William ("Big Bill") Hutcheson. A stanch Republican, Big Bill Hutcheson was the man John Lewis knocked down in a fist fight at the 1935 A. F. of L. convention...
...Professional Champion Denny Shute at Walton Heath, Surrey, for a $2,500 prize and "the world's championship" in 72 holes of match play. For two rounds Shute almost held his own, finishing the 36th hole 2 down, 72-72 v. 71-70. Then his wood game cracked while Cotton plodded grimly, steadily on, carding a brilliant 69 for the third round and spinning along at 2 under par when he finished the match, 6 and 5 at the 67th hole. Cotton got $2,000, Shute...
Died. Charles Stuart Wood Packard, 77. Philadelphia financier and philanthropist, longtime (1899-1934) president of Pennsylvania Company for Insurance on Lives & Granting Annuities; in Philadelphia...