Word: carusi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With Wayne Taylor came short, balding Ugo Carusi, executive assistant to the U.S. Attorney General; with Sewell Avery were two top company executives. Out of his briefcase Wayne Taylor drew a certified copy of the Presidential order directing the Secretary of Commerce to take over operation of Montgomery Ward & Co. "for the successful prosecution...
...hour later Wayne Taylor emerged, informed newsmen that Sewell Avery had bluntly refused to turn over his plant. Messrs. Taylor and Carusi seemed nonplussed. They telephoned Commerce Secretary Jesse Jones in Washington, huddled with U.S. District Attorney J. Albert Woll in Chicago's old Post Office. Presently they returned, accompanied by U.S. Deputy Marshal William H. McDonnell and eight gun-toting deputies. Facing the armed squadron, Sewell Avery politely told Marshal McDonnell that he would not surrender. Then a call went out to Camp Skokie Valley, just north of Chicago...
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