Word: disconnect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week U. S. District Attorney William J. Campbell in Chicago "respectfully requested" Western Union, A. T. & T. and the telephone company's Illinois subsidiary to disconnect Nationwide's number. Unless they obeyed, they might be indicted as accessories in an illegal enterprise. Although Mr. Campbell has yet to convict indicted Publisher Annenberg of evading income taxes, illegal trafficking with gamblers, etc., the wire companies agreed to hang up on Annenberg services throughout the U. S. At that point a Federal judge persuaded Attorney Campbell to let the network stay in operation three more days while he heard...
Police reissued the warning to all students not to allow local boys to drive their cars to garages for them. The boys usually disconnect the speedometers and go joy-riding, police officials said. One such boy was picked up early this week for getting involved in a free-for-all with a "borrowed...
There is no air supply coming down through a hose, the diver carries tanks of oxygen and helium on his back, inside the suit, adjusts his own atmosphere. Thus there is no airline to foul or puncture, and the diver can even disconnect his hoist line for greater freedom, keeping track of a "distance line" on the bottom so that he can find his way back to the surface connecting lines. If he happens to lose it, he can, according to Diver Nohl, rise of his own accord by valving gas into the suit...
...Orleans, drivers who park near the coliseum, midtown auditorium or uptown stadia are pestered by urchins or oldsters who offer to watch cars for a small tip. If it is refused, they slash tires, put gravel in the gas tank, disconnect the carburetor. In San Francisco, boys cluster around fashionable restaurants, try to watch cars or get taxis. Philadelphia had a lot of trouble with bands of 12-year-olds who worked a similar racket around Shibe Park, Temple Stadium, Franklin Field, the Convention Hall. Police finally stifled it by making arrests for "malicious mischief." Los Angeles police...