Word: booths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blackmailer that he had been bilked by his own messenger. Last week she dragged out to ten minutes her sixth telephone conversation with him, was relieved to hear him suddenly plead: "Don't grab me. I'll come," as police arrested him in an uptown telephone booth. Said Mrs. Collier later: "I never had an experience just like this. In a way it was fun, but once is enough...
Police arrested over 100 people, subdued many a polling booth ruffian. When the votes were counted, Camillien had been elected by a 36,000-vote plurality, and a 52,000 majority over his nearest opponent, the biggest ever seen in Montreal. His defeated Liberal opponent complained. "The Houdeist forces had prepared a widespread telegraphing [dummy-voting] and ballot-stuffing machine that worked to perfection. The old gang is back." Mayor-elect Houde's first move was to let it be known that he plans to form a new Conservative party of his own to be called the National Autonomist...
...year-old leading lady, if she possesses the energy and ability shown by other members of her family, may get somewhere some day. Rosemary Ames's father was Knowlton Lyman ("Snake") Ames, famed Princeton fullback of the Golden Nineties and head of a Chicago investment house, of Booth Fisheries Co. and of the Chicago Journal of Commerce. In mid-Depression, he shot himself. Knowlton Jr. built up the Journal of Commerce for his father, who then turned it over to Son John. Junior Ames bought the Chicago Post, joined Col. "Frank" Knox on the Chicago Daily News...
There were live dogs, live chickens, live pheasants, live tap-dancers. Mrs. Roosevelt stopped at a booth labeled "Consider the Poor Fish" where tropical fish swam inside bookends, lamp bases and cases hung like pictures on walls...
...exchanges that still cling to the old custom of calling off the full stock list 'at the opening of each daily session. After that, trading in the usual manner begins. There are no posts on the floor, each broker having his booth against the wall. All sessions are open to the public and only a low railing divides the visitors' gallery from the trading floor...