Word: chandlerisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...door burst open, a flash bulb glared and Crusader Ewald was photographed in bed with a man and a woman. Before he was blackjacked, tough Henry Ewald knocked three of the intruders sprawling and threw a fourth out of the window. He staggered home, called his publisher, Ralph Bradford Chandler, told him he had been framed...
Next day Publisher Chandler started a private investigation, learned to his sorrow that his crusading editor's personal record was bad. Henry Ewald resigned and left Mobile. But Publisher Chandler kept up his campaign. Government investigators went to Mobile, laid their evidence before U. S. District Attorney Francis Harrison Inge. District Attorney Inge got indictments against the four men who had trapped and photographed Editor Ewald, and the woman who had invited him to her room. Also indicted was a young assistant circuit solicitor (State's attorney), Bart B. Chamberlain Jr.. who had boasted publicly that...
...fixed charges $11,000,000 a year by persuading the bondholders to accept an eight-year moratorium on interest payments. Last week Dan Willard personally appeared before the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee to ask that Congress spare him the "personal disgrace" of a B. & O. bankruptcy by passing the Chandler Bill...
...Happy" Chandler meantime ordered 200 additional troops, including howitzer and tank companies, to join the 600 Guardsmen on duty. Their arrival, probably early tomorrow, is expected to signal the opening of more shafts...
...Snow, 79, Marion Mackey began shooting. When he had mowed down Farmer Snow and Mrs. Snow, their two daughters and son-in-law-killing three of the five-Mackey was still mad. On his way to hide out in the Red River bottoms, he stopped to kill Farmer Dee Chandler, who was plowing a field...