Word: yards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second half Kirkland came back strongly and evened the count when Wiley E. Mayne '38 broke through the right side of the line, outsprinted the secondary, and shook off the safety man to cross the line standing up after a 75-yard jaunt...
...previous years open-air strikes have been held in the Yard which intended to arouse the more conservative sectors of undergraduate opinion into active opposition...
...Government had charged, and the defense freely admitted, that from 1929 to 1933 "Abe" Shushan received and failed to report for tax purposes more than $400,000, largely through a 2?-per-cubic-yard tribute which he, as president of the New Orleans Levee Board, exacted from dredging contractors. The defense maintained that these payments were simply political contributions which passed through Shushan's hands as a collector for the Long machine. The Government traced large sums of Defendant Shushan's "political" income to personal expenditures, while the defense could trace only $44,000 to the Long treasury...
...reported that the Chief of the Yard Police will be the nominee for the new Commissioner of Public Saftey when that post comes up for consideration in the City Council a week from Tuesday...
...present attempts to clear him rest on his own testimony, the reputed evidence of the victors and Francis and the modified identity of William Lawrence, the Yard Cop. While it appears that there was insufficient evidence to arrest him, he cannot be positively exonerated until all the facts in the case are brought to light...