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Northwestern's President Walter Dill Scott asked Chief William O. Freeman of the Evanston police to evict Gangster Capone & party.* Chief Freeman said they had tickets, were committing no offense. He did not see how it could be done. The student booing continued, however, and at the end of the third quarter Capone & henchmen left. A crowd of 400 followed him out. A band of Boy Scouts gamboled about him shouting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Spectator | 10/12/1931 | See Source »

...Waukesha, Wis., Phillip Voss burned down his house in order to evict eleven tenants who refused to pay rent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Progress | 3/31/1930 | See Source »

...constituted authority of the State of North Carolina." After 74 strikers and their leaders had been arrested, the county jail was filled. More troopers came to town. Minor dynamitings occurred in the mills. A Labor Day parade was banned by the county commissioners and the mill owners moved to evict 230 families of strikers from company homes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: They Act Alike | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

...Thaden, Phoebe Omlie, Thea Rasche. The second day out Miss Crosson crashed fatally. Others had accidents, which they attributed to sabotage (not confirmed by investigators) or got lost. Thirteen ended the race, Ruth Nichols cracking up only 130 miles from the Cleveland airport. The Department of Commerce tried to evict Miss Rasche en route because her license had expired. She continued. Winner was Mrs. Thaden, with a Travel Air in 20½ hrs. flying time. Winner in the light plane division was Mrs. Omlie, with a Monocoupeaon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: On to Cleveland | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

...possessor of a three story brick building on High Street in this city, is literally sitting athwart the $12,000,000 expansion program of Yale University. Directly in the path of the growth of Yale University is her house, and nothing short of a court order seems likely to evict...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE VS. MRS. SWEAZEY STIRS NEW HAVEN COURT | 9/24/1926 | See Source »

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