Word: carlstrom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...back taxes and penalties and $86,666 back rent on its site to the estate of Supreme Court Chief Justice Melville W. Fuller, the Hamilton filed a petition to reorganize under Section 77B of the Federal Bankruptcy Act. Last year Illinois' onetime Attorney General Oscar Carlstrom. the club's 43rd president, desperately got its members' consent to delete the word "Republican" from the charter and open membership to Democrats, chief effect of which was that a number of crusty Republican diehards huffily resigned. Another last-minute expedient was to lease part of the clubhouse to Chicago...
...Elvert Carlstrom. a young Swede, appeared with a Hauptmann alibi for the fatal night of March 11, 1932. He said he had gone from Dunellen, N. J., where he was employed as a caretaker, to The Bronx to see a girl named "Esther." He went to Christian Fredericksen's bakery-restaurant, which he used to patronize when he lived nearby, with a man named "Larsen." In the restaurant, he distinctly remembered seeing Hauptmann sitting at a table. When the State began questioning him, Carlstrom could not recall "Esther's" last name or "Larsen's" first...
...Carlstrom of Chicago contributed a tear-gas gun which a woman may conceal beneath her skirt, ready for use at the approach of a molester. Miss Catherine A. Moran pulled up her dress to show how it was used...
...tapping of Mrs. McCormick's telephone line near her farm at Byron, Ill. Undisputed was the fact that her confidential records had been searched and pilfered. Last month the Senate Committee held hearings at Chicago at which Mrs. McCormick and her political counsel, Attorney General Oscar E. Carlstrom of Illinois, offered to submit what they claimed was proof that Committee agents had a hand in these melodramatic antics. Chairman Nye, after questioning his agents privately and convincing himself of their probity, categorically denied Mrs. McCormick's "slanderous insinuations," refused to hear her evidence, adjourned the hearings. Mrs. McCormick...