Word: gordon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Supplied evidence for 947 income-tax-evasion convictions, including Johnny Torrio, Al Capone, Waxey Gordon...
Defendant Browder's lawyer was famed, white-haired George Gordon Battle. To call Earl Browder's evasion criminal fraud, roared Mr. Battle, was "flimsy, uncertain, vague, clumsy, meaningless interpretation of words." To this roar, Attorney Battle added no defense testimony whatsoever, did not even offer a defense summation. Defendant Browder instead chose to plead his own case, ably belabored the technical charge on which he was spitted. Said he in conclusion...
...Parliament to protest a recent War Office order: "No more kilts will be issued until the war is over." For almost two centuries Scotsmen have struggled against what they regard as repeated efforts by the War Office to abolish their national dress, worn by the Argyll and Sutherland, Gordon, Cameron and Sea forth Highlanders and the redoubtable Black Watch.* Scots now have to admit the War Office's contention that the kilt is poor protection against poison gas; that its pleats harbor cooties; that when wet it galls the knees, when icy cuts them, making the "Ladies from Hell...
Born. To Louise Carnegie Miller Thomson, 20, granddaughter and heiress-apparent of the late fabulous Andrew Carnegie; and James Frederick Gordon Thomson, 43, sporty Edinburgh lawyer: their first child, a daughter; on the Carnegie estate, Skibo Castle, Scotland. Once reminisced an old Skibo servant: "I'll not forget the way he [Carnegie] looked up at the castle with that queer smile o' his. 'Steel built yon hame,' the auld mon said, 'but it's love that'll keep it together when I'm called away...
...feature event of Worcester Boys' Club's fourteenth annual open swimming meet, Cutler was clocked in 2 minutes 16.8 seconds, erasing the old mark of 2 minutes 21 seconds established by Gordon Connolly of the Boston Swimming Association in 1934. Boston worth took the lead from the starting line and held it until Cutler overtook him on the gun lap, winning by a body length...