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Word: carly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...porch. It said "Shady Rest." The interviewer found Mr. Birger in the cellar, playing with a white dog. He had on a bullet-proof jacket. Six men sat around, spitting and smoking and laughing at the puppy. They all had rifles. Outside in the shed was an armored touring car that Charles Birger used when he drove abroad on his affairs. The roadhouse .was barricaded. Machine guns looked out between the shutters. Mr. Birger said he would get Carl Shelton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Kippered Herrin | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

...gangs had originally been one, a compact body organized against the Ku Klux Klan to protect the interests of the Herrin liquor trade. Carl Shelton and Charles Birger disagreed about something-a holdup, a woman, a rake-off-nobody was sure. Mr. Shelton had an armored car made in St..Louis and hired a squad of gunmen to go round with him. Mr. Birger got his own friends together. It was hard to say who would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Kippered Herrin | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

Benito Mussolini waited quietly until the mob thinned sufficiently for his car to proceed. As he drove away the cheering rose to a roar: "Long live the Duce! .... Death to his enemies! .... Woe to him who touches the Savior of Italy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Woe. . . | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

...addition the Legation must pay Wu $25 per car, and the village where this general was quartered demanded $1.80 per car additional 'squeeze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Strawn Speaks | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

Died. William Seward Webb, 75, railroad builder, (Wagner Palace Car Co., now the Pullman); at Shelburne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 8, 1926 | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

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