Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Republican ticket against Jimmy Walker for Mayor, bringing charges of malfeasance against Walker which initiated the Seabury investigations. Last week his downtown Italian district went Democratic, failed to return him to Congress. He likes to mix salads, play the trombone and will fight at the drop of a hat. Making four speeches to McKee's one, he did not let his opponent's charges go long unnoticed. He, too, had pledged charter reforms and at the Harvard Club had impressed many of his conservative listeners, to whom his past radicalism was the cause of grave suspicion, with...
Score--Kirkland 7, Leverett 0. Touchdown--Parker. Point after touchdown--Callaway, by a drop kick...
...Koss, 78, longtime friend and legal adviser of Manhattan's Wendel family (see below); of heart disease; in Manhattan. As attorney for the estate of Ella Wendel, he fought so ably in court that the claims of 2,295 heirs were disallowed, nine distant relatives were paid to drop contest proceedings, a dull-witted housepainter was sent to prison for posing as Ella Wendel's nephew...
Because he rarely uses his full name, Storeman Abraham Lincoln Filene, treasurer, board chairman of Boston's William Filene's Sons Co., brother of Edward Albert Filene, petitioned a Boston court to let him drop the Abraham...
...return the bankers agreed to refund $131,000,000 of outstanding revenue bills at lower interest rates and to finance the city's current cash requirements. Mayor O'Brien agreed to drop his proposed taxes on savings banks and insurance companies if they would buy $70,000,000 of relief bonds. For the time being at least the first city of the land was saved from the stigma of default but John Patrick O'Brien had had to hock its income...