Word: gunshot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...agencies in the names of friends and relatives, taken 3% to 15% of the premium in commissions, v. the ¼% to 1% charged by reputable firms. Some shady companies were found to be offering sizable kickbacks for business brought to them by union leaders. In New York, the late (gunshot wounds) Yonkers Raceway Labor Boss Thomas F. Lewis (TiME, Oct. 5) and his associates picked up $275,000 in excess commissions and fees from the welfare fund of his small (about 5,000 members) union. In Minneapolis, a teamsters' union-fund trustee borrowed money from the fund to open...
...night in St. Louis when the Rabbit dived fully clothed into a fountain pool (though he always denied that he came gurgling to the surface with a goldfish clenched in his teeth). There was the time when he was playing in Brooklyn and staged a fake killing, complete with gunshot, that was daffy enough even by Dodger standards. And there was the time when he got news of his appointment as manager of the Chicago Cubs. "A'nice way to celebrate this," mused the Rabbit, "would be to fight a couple of Irish cops...
Percussion in a nearly pristine state, but not nearly so frightening as it might seem from the line-up of instruments (partial roster: three bass drums, seven timpani, three xylophones, a glockenspiel, a gunshot machine and five pebble-filled cocktail shakers). Especially designed for hi-fi fans, but one number (Happy Little Woodpile) has pop possibilities...
Died. Robert M. ("Young Bob") La Follette Jr., 58, Wisconsin Republican and Progressive Party Senator (1925-46), son and successor to "Fighting Bob"; by his own hand (gunshot); in Washington, D.C. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
Died. Gene ("Old Tack") Howe, 66, publisher (1926-50) of the Amarillo Globe and News, whose daily column, "The Tactless Texan," was standard fare to thousands in the panhandle; by his own hand (gunshot); in Amarillo (see PRESS...