Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gave them details of the capture. As excited reporters were ready to rush away toward telephones, someone asked when the Bureau expected to catch William Mahan, scar-faced ex-convict who last June got $200,000 by kidnapping 9-year-old George Weyerhaeuser at Tacoma, Wash. (TIME, June 3, et seg.). "Oh, by the way," smiled Director Hoover, "I almost forgot to tell you. We picked up Mahan in San Francisco at 12:30 this noon." Forty-eight hours after being captured, Mahan pleaded guilty in Tacoma, was bundled off to Puget Sound's McNeil Island Penitentiary to begin...
Died. Milo Reno, 70, tireless, belligerent Iowa farm strike leader, head of the National Farmers' Holiday Association (TIME, Aug. 29, 1932 et seq.); of a heart attack following influenza and pneumonia; in Excelsior Springs...
...et seq.: "In bed with what they call the grippe and a hot water bottle- not a bad combination. . . . More or less in bed owing to my hind legs, which are in a chronic state of being asleep up to the knees and threaten to leave me in the lurch. ... I am growing very tottery and had considerable difficulty in dressing this a. m. Even so, I shirk my job and ignominiously retire to blankets and a cheap novel at our forlorn and smelly billet...
First weeks of the Federal Communications Commission's investigation of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. were enlivened by digressions into lobbying, horse racing and cinema production (TIME, March 30 et seq.). In the matter of revealing what Congress had appropriated $750,000 to have revealed-the how and why of telephone rates-Commission Counsel Samuel Becker got next to nowhere. In the past fortnight, however, Counsel Becker has borne down more consistently on the prime purpose of the investigation, giving Commission accountants a chance to talk. Questions raised thereby put FCC in a better position to ask Congress last week...
Because constables at a place called Elkton, Md. had dared to snap handcuffs on the aristocratic wrists of Iran's Minister Plenipotentiary, the Great Ghaffar Khan Djalal, arrest him for speeding, all diplomatic and consular agents of Iran have been withdrawn from the U. S. (TIME, Dec. 9 et seq.). To Teheran went word last week that the end of insults was not yet. Though Iran's chargé d'affaires, Hossein Ghods, has already left the U. S. in the wake of his chief, the U. S. Customs was vulgar enough to suggest that Iran...