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...inspectors went up to the front door of the flat, and Fitzgerald"--he pointed to a man of medium height with rough features--"he and another inspector went up the back. They bolted the doors as soon as we knocked. But Fitzgerald had a sledge hammer with him, in case' something like that happened. He bashed in the back door...

Author: By Ronald P. Kriss, | Title: Police Raid | 12/8/1952 | See Source »

...half months of investigation at 2:10 p.m. with a raid on the central headquarters at the third floor of a 861 Washington St. apartment house. In order to gain entry, one officer had to smash in the rear door of the flat with a sledge hammer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cops Smash Local $50,000-A-Month Bookie Enterprise | 11/29/1952 | See Source »

Other former college stars in action for the Business School were Sam Carnahan of Oklahoma, Ed Leede and George Bissell of Dartmouth, Dick Hammer of Princeton, Ted Hummell of Lafayette, Dick Garrison of Trinity, Pat Parker of Williams, Tom Bushman of Notre Dame, Jack Hoffmire of Rutgers, and Pete Hager of Princeton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Busy School All-Stars Beat Yale 13-0; Take Big Three Tag Title | 11/24/1952 | See Source »

...lipstick and a momentous ad: "There's a new American beauty . . . she's tease and temptress, siren and gamin, dynamic and demure. Men find her slightly, delightfully baffling. Sometimes a little maddening." In Providence, Mary Burns, 21, hit her father on the head several times with a hammer, explaining: "He's ugly-looking, and he made me that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: After the Vote | 11/17/1952 | See Source »

...good deal of credit for the 1952 showing goes to a spectacular get-out-the-vote drive sparked by American Heritage Foundation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan agency. Beginning last June, the foundation (chairman: New York Banker Winthrop Aldrich; vice chairman A.F.L. President William Green) went hammer & tongs to obtain the cooperation of civic groups, broadcasters, editors, educators, cartoonists, advertisers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Record Vote | 11/17/1952 | See Source »

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