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...ranks this season marked the otherwise loosely-played Dean Academy-Harvard Seconds game, which the invaders won by the score of 6 to 2. With a man on first and second, the batter hit a line drive to T. G. O'Neil '30, second baseman, who touched second and threw to first for the third putout...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seconds Pull Triple Play, But Lose | 5/7/1929 | See Source »

...Brockton, Mass., Ku Klux Klan meeting last month where Senator James Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin of Alabama, who mortally hates and fears the Roman Pope, was making his customary speech for hire against the Roman Catholic Church, somebody threw a bottle. It missed the Senator but hit and cut his police bodyguard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Again, Heffling | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

Last week Deputy Sheriff Roy Smith, fat, officious, went to the De King home with the warrant. It was 9 p. m. De King refused to let him in. Smith went away, returned before midnight with three more deputies. They surrounded the house, threw mustard bombs, rushed the door. De King was clubbed into unconsciousness. Lillian De King, his wife, was at a telephone, screaming "Help! Help!" over the wire to their lawyer. Deputy Sheriff Smith fired a shotgun loaded with slugs point- blank into her abdomen. She wilted to the floor, dead. Gerald De King, 12-year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Fatal Zeal | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

Winston won both the drop kicking and kicking off contests yesterday, beating C. O. Newhardt '31 and J. W. Potter '30 in each of these respectively. In the forward pass receiving competition R. S. Ogden '31 proved to be the most adept at snaring the forwards that Coach Casey threw. Nathaniel Warner '30 captain-elect of the University wrestling team, won the center passing contest for accuracy. Newhardt captured honors for linemen by winning the coming out of the line competition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WINSTON AND HUGULEY SPLIT FOOTBALL HONORS | 4/5/1929 | See Source »

Insistent has been the rumor of a merger between Radio Corp. of America and Western Union Telegraph Co. Presidents of both companies have admitted "conversations." denied merger plans. Last week it became apparent that at least one current merger denial was supported by the facts. Abruptly, R.C.A. threw down the gage of battle to Western Union and announced the birth of R.C.A. Communications, Inc., to compete directly with U.S. telegraph companies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Wire v. Wireless | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

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