Word: armenians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born in Turkey, of Greek and Armenian parents, Albert Isaac Bezzerides reached the U. S. when he was nine months old, grew up on his father's farm near Fresno, was a champion quarter-miler in high school. Unable to pronounce his name ("Buzz-air-uh-dees"), his schoolmates called him Buzzard's Knees. He won a scholarship to the University of California, quit in disgust three months before graduation. Then he settled down to truck driving. When he got married he began to write. Prodded on by his wife, he began selling stories to Story, Scribner...
...studying the skull and bone structure, we figured that the three were a mother and two daughters, with black wavy hair (this we guessed after examining the small patch), and very prominent noses, probably Armenian types. I understand that pictures and descriptions of the Golden family bear this out," Woodbury said...
...Prohibition years. Today California makes 97% of U. S. wine and the Wine Institute represents the producers of 75% of California's wine. Little Harry Caddow, still the Wine Institute's secretary-manager, has a hard job getting his temperamental French, Italian, German, Swiss, Hungarian, Armenian and Scottish members to hang together. Biggest Institute wineries are Italian Swiss Colony with a storage capacity of about 13,000,000 gallons, Fruit Industries Ltd., a growers' co-operative with a storage capacity of 19,500,000 gallons, and Roma Wine Co., Inc. which is now expanding...
Believing that Marriner had refused him a visa to return to the U. S., the Armenian emptied a revolver into the diplomat as he left his automobile in front of the U. S. Consulate five weeks ago. Actually, Marriner had granted the visa but the letter informing Karayan had not been delivered because of a change of address. Condemned to death after a court had judged him sane, Karayan was refused a last minute reprieve...
...light streaks widened in the east, the young Armenian climbed the scaffold, calmly told his grim-faced audience that "an insult motivated my crime." In an ironic gesture he willed the revolver he used to the U. S. Congress. Then, with hands strapped, hood over his eyes, he pierced the chill silence with a shout, "A bas Washington!" (Down with Washington!). The trap was sprung and his body plumped down through the opening, jerked to a sudden stop as the rope became taut...