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...trade. On promise of receiving "two elks and two black beavers." King Charles II gave the "Governor and Company of Adventurers of England trading into Hudson's Bay" a charter two years later for the exclusive trade of all territories watered by streams flowing into Hudson Bay. No gunshot had ever sounded there and caribou and grizzlies roamed the bleak and ragged wastes undisturbed, when Prince Rupert's little company settled down to business, taking as their motto "Pro Pelle Cutem" (Skin for Skin...
Died. Gerald W. Peck, 47, Chicago investment banker, utilitarian and sportsman, grandson of Wisconsin's late Author-Governor George Wilbur Peck (Peck's Bad Boy); of a gunshot wound inflicted by one Tom Hollamon Sr., 67-year-old farmer, during a directors' meeting of Texas Hydro-Electric Co., of which Banker Peck was president; in Seguin, Tex. Witnesses said Hollamon appeared at the meeting to press an old claim for land flooded by a company dam, started to leave after a "friendly" conversation, wheeled, fired twice...
Died. Wilbur Underhill, 33, desperado, leader of the sensational Kansas penitentiary break last Memorial Day (TIME, June 12); of gunshot wounds inflicted by peace officers who cornered him last fortnight in Shawnee, Okla. (TIME, Jan. 8); in the Oklahoma penitentiary at McAlester...
...month." Pennsylvania's Reed told of a veteran with one leg shot off in battle who that very morning had hobbled into his office to protest a cut in his disability compensation from $100 to $40. Michigan's Vandenberg told of a veteran suffering with gunshot wounds in the back, hernia, arthritis and chronic nervousness who was about to lose $82 of his $90 monthly pension. "That means," cried Senator Vandenberg, "he'll get shot in the back a second time-this time by the Govern-ment." The chamber rang with protests against "the horrors of this...
Died. Anton Joseph ("Tony") Cermak, 59, Mayor of Chicago; of gangrenous pneumonia resulting from a gunshot wound; in Miami where he had been hospitalized since the night of Feb. 15 when in Bay Front Park he was hit in the abdomen by a bullet aimed by Assassin Joe Zangara at President-elect Roosevelt (TIME, Feb. 27). Born in Bohemia, Cermak was taken to the U. S. when one year old. He drove a mule in Illinois coal mines before he was 12. In Chicago he started as a teamster, built up his own trucking company, expanded into real estate...