Word: fired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Loewenstein arrived at St. Ingbert from Brussels with fire in her pretty eyes. "This was due to your negligence!" she cried to Pilot Drew, "Take the plane back to Croyden and sell it. I never want to see it or you again...
Workers in iron deal with a difficult medium and one which it is impossible to handle with two hands and a simple tool. Brandt, after he became successful in Paris before the War, had a large factory in which he made his graceful gates, balconies, doors and figured fire screens. During the War his plant was converted into a gun factory, and Edgar Brandt used his talent in metal for machines whose extreme beauty was that of cruel efficiency. When the War was over he designed the Bayonet Trench Monument near Verdun, presented by George Franklin Rand, Buffalo banker...
...tough preparatory schools and colleges, big boys sell the radiators, fire-escapes, bedroom crockery, etc., to smaller boys. In Chicago, big boys sell small boys the privilege of staying in business. Chicago's "rackets," as they are called, developed out of the Prohibition graft system, where Federal agents extort money from blind-piggers for protection. One of the most profitable "rackets" in the Chicago underworld is in the cleaning and dyeing industry. The profits reach $1,500,000 per annum. Credit for bringing the "racket" to its Chicagoan perfection belongs largely to Timothy D. ("Big Tim") Murphy-who last...
...machine guns." The Murphy murder quickly reverberated in Brooklyn, N. Y. Frank Uale, alias Yale, dressy gangster and racketeer, friend of Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone of Chicago, was cruising comfortably in his shiny Lincoln sedan. Another car (with Illinois license plates) slid up behind. Four men opened fire at the back of Uale's head, then drew alongside and shot off the side of his face. The Lincoln careened off the street, through a hedge, against a brick stoop. The Illinois car vanished...
German View. The official view of the German Republic, based on the findings of a German Commission of Inquiry, is that the combustion of the Library of Louvain arose from accidental causes, in the absence of any adequate fire fighting equipment, and without incendiary act by any German whomsoever. Nonetheless beaten Germany has made the reparation specified in the Treaty of Versailles; and Monsignor Ladeuze does not hold that this reparation should now be repatriated to Germany...