Word: matthew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only way that Negro Matthew Williams knew to protest his low wages was to get a revolver, kill his boss. His boss was Daniel J. Elliott, 67-year-old lumber dealer of Salisbury, on the eastern shore of Maryland. Last week, a few hours after the crime, the Eastern Shore upheld its reputation for being a fringe of the Deep South. Six men marched into the hospital where Williams lay, only partly conscious because he had shot himself in the chest and his employer's son had shot him in the head. A mob of 2,000 turned...
...Martin '34 and F. H. Gleason '34 make up Harvard's defense replacements. For spare goalies Matthew Hale '32 and C. E. Ware '34 are available. The fifteen men mentioned above are all who will be dressed to play, but there are about ten more who are still retained on the University squad, and there will probably be a shakeup after enough time has elapsed to permit an adequate judgment as to the capabilities of the respective players...
...Matthew Talbot, born in 1856, was a thin, small man with a high forehead and big eyes. As a youth he was a harum-scarum, liked to drink whiskey and would sell his shoes for a drop of it. Then one day he agreed to take the pledge-for three months. It lasted for the rest of his life. Employed in a lumberyard, he became known as a quiet, pious man. What his fellows did not know was that he slept nights on a plank covered with a single sheet, a block of wood for his pillow...
...Baldwin '33, Benjamin Beale '34, F. T. Brown '32, H. M. Cleaves '33, W. H. Crosby '32, C. C. Cunningham '32, W. C. Everett '33, R. M. Gallagher '34, S. deB. deGive '34, F. H. Gleason '34, Matthew Hall '32, W. L. Hasler '34, R. H. Martin '34, C. E. McGregor '32, K. C. Mittell '34, C. C. Pell '33, J. W. Putnam '33, Robert Saltonstall '33, J. T. Summers '34, C. Y. Wadsworth '32, C. E. Ware '34, Nathaniel Ware '34, W. B. Wood...
Elected. General Jan Christian Smuts, to be rector of the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, defeating Scottish-born banking & shipping Tycoon James Lyle Mackay, Earl of Inchcape, 466-286. The rectorship, honorary post which may be held in absentia, has been graced since 1919 by Sir James Matthew Barrie, Rudyard Kipling, the late Fridtjof Nansen, Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell...