Word: crooke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...right to pass on the substance of the Insull indictment but only upon the legal regularity of the extradition request. In his pocket was a warrant signed by President Roosevelt for the arrest of Fugitive Insull whom Forest Harness was ready to escort home like any common crook...
...Detectives with fake ailments haunted his waiting room. When the extortionists finally named the location for the payment, the place bristled with sleuths selling oranges, taking stock in grocery stores, sweeping sidewalks in janitors' clothing. As soon as the money changed hands, detectives shot the tires off the crooks' car, ran it into an iron fence, found two of the gang in it, beat them unmercifully. The third crook they caught later...
Joseph Ventre, a cheap little crook indicted with the dead gunman's widow, was not long in telling the police the whole story. He and a man named Pace had been living with Mrs. Coll. They had been supporting themselves by petty stickups until Mrs. Coll. accustomed to doughtier deeds, urged them to "give up this five-and-ten-cent-store business." Thereupon the trio tried to abduct a jeweler, who surprised them by running swiftly down the street instead of getting in their car. Pace went flying after him, wildly firing a revolver. The jeweler escaped unscathed...
...States. At that rate (surely below actual) the U. S. would realize some $110,000,000 per year from beer. In 23 days beer-bibbers in New York contributed $2,290,686 in Pennsylvania $1,363,704, in Wisconsin $1,314,387. By some hook, crook or accident Dry Kansas paid a Federal beer...
...eighteen-piece orchestra while John M. Green '28 a popular song writer will entertain in the downstairs Commend Room. Dancing will take place in the large Dining Room and in the Rotunda, and supper will be served shortly after midnight in the Common Room, when Green will crook...