Word: harmonized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sentenced. Harmon M. Waley, 24, kidnapper of George Weyerhaeuser (TIME, June 17): to 45 years in prison; after pleading guilty at Tacoma, Wash...
...purchase. At the cashier's cage her $5 bill was quickly checked with the ransom list. The detective made his arrest. Other officers were waiting at the woman's home when her husband appeared a few hours later, with two ransom bills in his pocket. The man, Harmon Waley, promptly confessed his part in the kidnapping. Suspended sentences or paroles after five convictions for burglary had given 24-year-old Harmon Waley a proper contempt for U. S. courts and prisons. It was soon discovered that the Waleys had spent a penniless year in Camden, N. J., boasted...
...Harmon White Caldwell is 36* and dean of the university's Lumpkin Law School. A slight, boyish bachelor, he has clean-cut features, flawless Southern manners and a bashfulness in the presence of women which betrays a life spent at his books & business. Some thirty years ago he was distinguishing himself as the smartest boy in Haralson, Ga. Twenty years ago he was the smartest student at Boys' High School at Atlanta. He spent two years going through the University of Georgia, two more teaching, before he entered Harvard Law School in 1921. Graduated, he taught for three...
...About that time the defendant opened a bank account. He operated that Bronx speakeasy . . . and then branched out. He took over a speakeasy [on] Third Avenue. He opened a new account under the name of Joseph Harmon...
...fellow named Rocco Delarme operated a beer distributing business with offices at ... East 149th Street. They got a telephone and ran a private extension over to the Third Avenue speakeasy so that the defendant could direct his business from there. They operated under the name of Harmon & Delarme, distributing beer on a major scale. ... In November of 1929 he entered into a partnership with Stevens and Ahearn [two bootleggers indicted with Flegenheimer but missing] and began operating on a very major scale...