Word: devil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reno, John Edwards Sievers filed a claim to the $100,000 willed by the late Horace Elliott Wadsworth as a reward for the apprehension of his murderer. Said John Edwards Sievers: "The coroner said Wadsworth died of 'acute alcoholism.' This is evidence that Satan, or the devil, killed him by an indirect method...
...Columbus Hospital. The cause of Mother Cabrini after being heard in Rome had reached the stage of "Apostolic Process" in which a church tribunal could be held to investigate miracles and "heroic virtues." The Holy See ordered that it take place in Chicago with George Cardinal Mundelein as judge. "Devil's advocates" were appointed to cross-examine witnesses and eliminate spurious miracles. One of them, Monsignor Giovanni Delia Cioppa, came all the way from Rome. Churchmen could recall no such tribunal having taken place before in the U.S. In strictest secrecy, by candlelight behind locked doors in an austere...
...Dantes Bellegarde, two years ago attempted to deny). Butler says he was sidetracked during the War because of an ''honest expression of opinion," was finally sent to France only to be put in command of the inglorious base camp at Brest. In 1924 Devil-Dog Butler made his biggest headlines when he was given leave of absence from the Marines to act as Director of Public Safety in Philadelphia. He announced that he would dry up the city in 48 hours. Two years later, disgusted with politics, politicians and Philadelphia, he returned to the Marine Corps, leaving Philadelphia...
...some sort of agreement among 27 snarling factions. Unless the non-union coal operators voluntarily withdrew their restrictions on collective bargaining, as the steelmasters had already done, General Johnson was ready to kick the company union clause out of their code. Said he: "They'll meet with the devil himself if their workers select him to act for them...
...cried: "I don't see why blood should flow and men refuse to talk to one another when the whole world is trying to get to gether. You can't get together with a man by throwing stones at him. I'd talk to the Devil himself if I thought there was a chance of making hell cooler. These few fierce local troubles will seem to the rest of the country like some one blowing a fire siren in the midst of a symphony concert!" After his speech General Johnson was invited to take the coal strike...