Word: irone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British-American extraterritorial seizure convention, a rumrunner may also be boarded within one hour's sail of the coast by the boats concerned. Well aware of the potential technicalities of the Josephine K. case, the board of inquiry had the captured ship ballasted with scrap iron, staged a race with the CG-145. The Josephine K. made 9.55 knots, the patrol boat 11.15. Again the evidence was favorable to the Coast Guard. Sea lawyers also remembered the "hot pursuit" clause in the 1924 agreement, but whether a hot pursuit is limited to within an hour's sailing...
...Coal & Iron Police of Pennsylvania have been for years a cause of fury to union labor and organized liberals. Recruited to protect corporate property, their strong-arm work has on occasion become nationally notorious. Crowning brutality occurred two years ago when three Coal & Iron policemen quarreled with one John Barcoski, Polish miner, while he was on his way to work. They beat him, bent a poker over his head, left him dead. Two of the officers were convicted of manslaughter...
...accordance with his pre-election pledge, Governor Gifford Pinchot* last week announced that when the 1,100 Coal & Iron police commissions expire on June 30 they will not be renewed. "I recognize," said he, "the necessity for police protection in these regions [chiefly the State's western industrial centres], but I believe it should be provided under conditions which will make such outrages as the Barcoski killing forever impossible...
...Coal & Iron Police were organized under legislative enactment of 1865, extending to railroads the privilege of employing private officers to protect property from theft, trespassing, malicious damage. Next year the act was amended to give collieries, rolling mills, furnaces the same right. Six years ago the privilege was granted to light and power companies...
Elected. Jean Borotra, Basque tennis player; to be a director of Lower Rhenish Iron Foundries & Machinery Co.; in Paris. An able engineer, he has made a fortune in gasoline pumps, is reputed the richest man of his years (31) in France...