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Word: itemizes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first item was a 132-page confession from one Celestino Madeiros, Portuguese garage-keeper, laborer, bootlegger, who is now awaiting execution for the Wrentham bank murder. Celestino says that he and certain members of the Morelli gang of Providence (now serving sentences in Atlanta and Leavenworth for stealing from freight cars) are the guilty ones in the Braintree murders, that he is willing to "tell everything," when the trial comes up, if the State will postpone his own execution long enough. Assistant District Attorney Dudley P. Ranney scoffed at this confession of a "murderer to whom penalties for lying mean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: Sacco & Vanzetti | 9/27/1926 | See Source »

Lawyer Thompson's second item was a broadside against the U. S. Department of Justice. He linked the Sacco and Vanzetti case with the 1920 anti-Red drive of Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, produced ex-Government agents who swore that conviction for murder was simply "one way of disposing of them," that there were files of evidence which the Department of Justice refused to reveal. Lawyer Thompson burst ihto flames...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: Sacco & Vanzetti | 9/27/1926 | See Source »

...company defaulted a $50,000 interest item against a $1,425,000 mortgage. It had sold insufficient bonds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Mortgages, Foreclosure | 9/13/1926 | See Source »

...exceed 60c per day; to bell boys and maids not over 30c. Laundry not to exceed $1.40 per week; pressing not over $1.25. If there is no bath in the room rented by the Government traveling man, he must not spend more than 50c per day for such an item. A little pamphlet is being printed to inform the unwary traveler exactly what to do. Therein he is told how late he may arrive at a place for breakfast in order to have it paid for by the Government. The new rules will go into effect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: At White Pine Camp- Sep. 6, 1926 | 9/6/1926 | See Source »

...Newspapers printed bulletins and pleaded editorially for a reconciliation; pleaded wisely, impartial and aloof, but without much effect, as is the way with newspapers. Then occurred an episode unusual to modern journalism. Away from his piled-up desk in Union Street strode Editor Marshall Ballard of the New Orleans Item-Tribune. Like any able editor, he had followed the traction situation closely, knew it thoroughly. By telephone he had assembled the streetcar operators, the workers and the city's Commission Council. To them he now marched and with a few crisp words of common sense, a bit of gruff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Press | 8/30/1926 | See Source »

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