Word: busch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dealer, father of six. shooed a crowd of children to safety, herded one of the steers into a yard. When Iceman Hay seized one of its horns the steer tossed him over the fence, leaped after him, trampled him. Then it turned on one William Busch who tried to rescue Hay. Finally it was roped. A second steer charged Policeman Arthur Jennings, pinned him against a tree before he could shoot the animal. The third escaped. Iceman Hay was treated for abrasions, returned home. Hours later he died of a fractured skull...
...Kelley drove away in his car. He did not return that night, nor the next day. . . . Soon St. Louis papers blared their favorite, almost their stereotyped headline: Kid-napped? It was St. Louis' 13th kidnap case in 16 months; and, as in the case of 13-year-old Adolphus Busch Orthwein (TIME, Jan. 19 et ante}, a wealthy and prominent victim. (Mrs. Kelley is a daughter of the late William Cullen McBride, rich...
...rumors, the headlines, the goose-chases were reminiscent of many another kidnap case. There was the family "executive committee," to deal with police and press; a committee headed oddly enough by William D. Orthwein II, a brother-in-law of Mrs. Kelley and a cousin of young Adolphus Busch Orthwein. And there was the most intense rivalry in the local press, notably between St. Louis' two famed newshawks, Harry Thompson Brundidge of the Star, and John T. Rogers of the Post-Dispatch. Brundidge had scooped the town on the Adolphus Busch Orthwein case...
With 12,000 jobs at his disposal Mayor Cermak began the distribution of patronage by making his personal physician, Dr. Hugh O. Jones, Acting Health Commissioner. Next he appointed Francis Xavier Busch to be Corporation Counsel, a position Mr. Busch held under Democratic Mayor Dever. Counsel Busch, considered one of the best trial lawyers in Chicago, was last year president of Chicago's Bar Association...
...Star's opposition took its defeat in the Busch case bitterly, the Times reputedly discharging three reporters for falling down. The Globe Democrat man had even talked to the elder Abernathy, but could not make him talk "kidnap." The Post-Dispatch had assigned its own No. i newsman, and one not often bested -John T. Rogers...