Word: handly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shortest jobs he ever held. His legal mind did not approve of President Roosevelt devaluing the dollar, and he spoke out against it. Roosevelt fired him. In a ceremony of Treasury officials at the White House, at which Acheson himself was a stiff-faced participant, Roosevelt handed the Under Secretary's job over to Henry Morgenthau Jr., remarking pointedly that he hoped Morgenthau's loyalty would stand up under any test. In a strained silence Acheson marched up to the President, shook his hand and told him that he was happy to have served. The two Groton graduates...
Night after night in the months that followed, he entered darkened mansions wearing a black mask, and collected jewels and expensive furs. One night, a wealthy New Rochelle boat builder named Tulloch refused to cooperate; Dennis shot him coolly and neatly through the hand and walked out with $1,200 in cash and $3,000 worth of jewelry...
...Customers. The Pyramid Club idea also attracted a glib throng of amateur and professional confidence men -there were numerous ways of sidetracking money during its hand-to-hand progression toward the top of the pyramid. In Detroit, Assistant Prosecutor Ralph Garber said: "There are enough innocent people winning from $800 to $1,500 to keep the chain process alive. But I have yet to find anyone who has won the $4,096." But newspapers which warned against Pyramid Clubs or prosecutors who tried to break them up, quickly discovered that the pyramiders had no wish to be saved...
...haul water from a frozen lake; their feet usually froze into icy stumps . . . and most of the victims died. One crazed fellow prisoner, to escape the logging detail, cut off one finger but was sent back to work. Losing his head completely, he chopped off his entire left hand, and collapsed unconscious. He was later shot for "malicious shirking of work...
...justice in the past dealt Kuhn a $10 traffic fine in Edgewater, N.J., a $5 fine for drunkenness & public profanity in Webster, Mass., a 2½-to-5-year sentence in Dannemora after he was caught with his hand in the Bund till...