Word: bum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mayor LaGuardia of New York City was sued for $100,000 slander by one William Weidberg, 32, Brooklyn lawyer, who charged that when he heckled the mayor at a political rally last week, the mayor called him "a ginmill bum...
...days later, when Leader Kuhn turned up in uniform to address a Bund meeting at Union City, N.J., a crowd of 2,000 anti-Nazis interrupted his dinner at Bund headquarters with boos and brickbats, bum's-rushed him fuming out of town...
...reported last month that the Department of Justice would not go to bat for Socialist Norman Thomas in his complaint under the Lindbergh Law (on kidnapping) against Boss Hague and the police of Jersey City who bum's-rushed him aboard a Manhattan-bound ferryboat when he tried to speak for civil liberties last spring. Such a storm of indignation rose from Liberals that the Department quickly disclaimed the report, said it was still studying the Thomas case. Last week Attorney General Cummings announced that evidence collected by G-Men would be placed before the Federal Grand Jury...
...class poll-is opposed by three Irishmen, in a heavily Irish district. His chance-rated even by local experts-lies in the Irish vote's splitting. Last week one of his opponents, Carroll Lehane, crashed an Eliot rally in Brighton. Instead of letting Mr. Lehane be bum's-rushed out. Candidate Eliot, trained to sportsmanship on the playing fields of Cambridge, invited him to speak. If nominated, Tom Eliot's harder fight will come in November, against crafty old Republican Robert Luce, 75, president of famed Luce's Press Clipping Bureau, who is seeking a tenth...
...resign, then reneged on a promise to back him in an automobile agency, left him to starve, refused to give him "more" money. Said Lieut. Smith: "If he had handed me a couple of bucks when I went to him for help and said, 'Here, you poor bum, buy yourself a cup of coffee,' I'd not have filed the charges." On the stand, Colonel Giffin sweated, admitted that he drank, called Lieut. Smith a blackmailer, failed to explain how hot foot was funny...