Word: item
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fourth item was somewhat less usual. Magistrate Michael A. Ford took up the case of a trio of respectable citizens accused of biting & scratching each other in a subway fight, ruled: biting & scratching is legal in subways, does not constitute disorderly conduct, because "herding of people like cattle" is enough to make anyone...
...Fifth item made real news. Mr. Brooks, 38, a banker, ordinarily as meek as a citizen, had been commuting from Greens Farms, Conn, for four years. Twice a day he had been shoved around in Grand Central Station, trampled like a grape in a vintage year; then, as he neared the train, given the old heave-o into the car by bawling subway guards. One muggy morning last week, Subway Guard Matthew Walsh spied Commuter Brooks on the crowd fringe, got behind him, shoved him mightily between the closing doors of a subway car. It was all suddenly too much...
Solemnly alleging that Neylan was representing only Herbert Fleishhacker, was working not for but against the interest of the bank, Anglo California demanded back $85,000 paid him from bank funds on Fleishhacker's orders. While it was about it, Anglo California tossed in another item of $75,000 still due on a note which Mr. Neylan has refused to pay because he thinks he has that much more fee coming...
...President Hutchins had already proposed that Chicago and Northwestern University merge.) Events soon showed that U. S. philanthropy is unpredictable. Last fortnight President Hutchins was obliged to announce one of the richest hauls in University of Chicago's history-a total of $8,000,000 in December. Major item: the $3,500,000 Lake Forest estate (including a top-rank, 18-hole golf course) of Adman Albert Davis Lasker...
...that was not particularly confidential about the Hore-Belisha bust-up in Britain, about the Duchess of Windsor's untenanted officers' hospital in France. But it did tell audiences, in the area in which most U. S. Jews are concentrated, a likely item of Jewish news: "One of the largest armies in the modern history of the Jewish race is being recruited and trained to take its place on the Western Front for the expected assault by Germany in the spring. Known as the Legions of Judea, the army already has 25,000 men in training at Aldershot...