Word: blackjackings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...edge of Detroit, irrepressible Orville L. ("Little Orvie") Hubbard has managed to obey almost every impulse that has popped into his head. It has not always led to the happiest results. His wife, for instance, once complained publicly that in a domestic tiff he had belabored her with a blackjack. The sheriff of Wayne County tried to jug him for not paying a $7,500 libel judgment, thus forcing him to set up a temporary government in exile at Windsor, Ont. (TIME, Aug. 21). And finally, a recall group began working for a special mayoralty election in the hope...
...There was a rush . . . our torches illuminated the interior of the car - the bewildered face of the General, the chauffeur's terrified eyes . . . [The] chauffeur was reaching for his automatic, so I hit him across the head with my kosh [blackjack] . . . and George . . . dumped him on the road. I jumped in behind the steering-wheel, and . . . saw Paddy and Manoli dragging the General out of the opposite door. The old man was struggling with fury . . . shouting every curse under the sun . . . [We bundled] him into the back seat [and he] kept imploring, 'Where is my hat? Where...
...Blackjack for the Kids. But a few months go, Dearborn began losing patience with Mayor Hubbard's lightheaded antics and heavy-handed rule. Voters reacted angrily when he tried to block a new $4,500,000 hospital which would be paid for with money donated by the Ford Motor Co., winced as he poured city money into a project known as Camp Dearborn, an elaborate public summer camp too far from the city to do most residents any good. When taxpayers complained, Little Orvie simply told them to shut up and raised property assessments...
Then his wife Fay sued him for divorce, complaining that he gave her only $10 a week to run the house and was wont to belabor her and the three oldest of the four kids with a blackjack. Reformers started a recall movement, and Attorney John J. Fish slapped a $100,000 libel suit on Orville for accusations he had made while electioneering. The mayor talked his wife into dropping the divorce suit and outwitted those who wanted to recall him-but he lost the libel suit...
...latest battle between Lewis and the law he calls a legal blackjack was joined. Miners with hungry bellies, and the nation, facing midwinter with a perilous two-to three-week supply of coal in its bins, could only hope the struggle would be short...