Word: illness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...petty criminal, Moneymaker Mayes kept four gangs of bootleggers and counterfeiters busy putting $800,000 of his currency into circulation. Prominent among his outlets were the Birger and Shelton gangs whose activities (TIME, Feb. 21) have heightened the ill-fame of Williamson and Herrin counties, Illinois. Birgers and Sheltons, feuding cutthroats, machine-gunners, hijackers, in their liquor deals, used to dupe each other and be duped by Mr. Mayes's money...
...legal, criminal and educational systems. Going to the very heart of his subject, he discussed crime in every phase of its development. Taking up the definition of crime first he showed how indeterminate a quality it is. He then passed to the punishment of crime and showed its accompanying ill effects. In concluding he placed all his stress on the training of children, offering them proper vocational guidance so that they would not be forced by poverty into committing robbery and other property crimes...
...visiting committee was appointed to call upon all students who were ill and valuable assistance of many kinds was given to such...
...Next year he was partner; in 1901, at his father's and uncle's deaths, he became president. And when his orphaned nephews?Philip D. Ill and Lester?had gone as far at Yale as they pleased, he took them into business with him. Under him Armour & Co. segregated its grain and elevator business as the Armour Grain...
...forests, fountains, lakes, drives and gardens, near the Lake Michigan shore north of Chicago. Truculently honest, weary of commercial strife, he now spends most of his time rusticating in California. Last week however he was, like another Cincinnatus called from his farm, in Chicago alongside his nephews Philip D. Ill and Lester in their tribulations with Armour Grain...