Word: hauls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...state auditor, candidate for reelection, and delegate to the G.O.P. national convention, he reportedly told Governor Stratton: "I just don't know why I did it. I didn't need the money." Epping, his office manager, was fired. All week, as news reports put the total haul at more than $1,000,000, Hodge, Epping and Banker Hintz were questioned by county and federal attorneys. The result was a jurisdictional tangle between Springfield and the federals over who would get the first indictments...
Washington's generous Hostess-with-Mostes' Perle Mesta was sued by a former niece-in-law, Mrs. Idel Tyson (now divorced from Perle's nephew). The charge: Perle had helped haul off $8,700 worth of household goods from Idel's Washington apartment while Idel was off in Europe...
Kienbusch's artistic urgings began early. "When I was a kid and blew out the candles on the birthday cake." he recalls, "I always made the same wish-to be an artist." Achieving that wish turned out to be a long haul that took him to the Art Students' League, abroad for a year's painting in Paris, and home again to work with Muralist Anton Refregier and Abstractionist Stuart Davis. Then a summer on Deer Island, off the Maine coast, gave Kienbusch his clue to what he liked to paint best: "The world of many things...
...cargo junk that is to take him upriver from Ichang, he feels irritably caught in a vise of passivity. Once under way, the American is alternately fascinated and repelled by the work of the "trackers," human beasts of burden whose yoke is a bamboo rope, who haul the junk from precarious footholds, step by straining step. Chief of the trackers is a Chinese John Henry nicknamed Old Pebble. Old Pebble is a kind of mythic Nature Boy who can chant his weary men through a rough gorge or leap into the treacherous waters to unsnag the towline and break surface...
Republican Williams' target was a pudgy bull's-eye he has blasted before, onetime Bootlegger and Numbers King William G. ("Big Bill") Lias, whose badly distributed 360 lbs. cause him to resemble the false-bottomed gasoline truck he devised in the '20s to haul West Virginia moonshine. Forsaking crasser occupations, Lias in 1945 bought Wheeling Downs, a half-mile track on an island in the Ohio River at Wheeling. He soon raced into trouble: the U.S. sued him for unpaid income taxes that, compounded by penalties and interest, totaled more than $2,500,000. Immigration authorities, ignoring...