Word: jam
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chicago's teachers did not get their money last week, but three moves were made to break the tax jam: 1) County Judge Edmund Kasper Jarecki announced he would consider no protested tax bill unless the protester first pays 60% of the amount due; 2) State's Attorney Swanson began investigating the Association of Real Estate Taxpayers, looking for possible grand jury action; 3) County Attorney Hayden N. Bell rendered formal opinion that even though a taxpayers' association seeks a lawful object it is, within the meaning of the law, conspiring criminally...
...might be a rusted lock on a treasure chest hauled from the sunken Egypt by the Italian salvage ship Artiglio II (TIME, June 20). Never having met the lock that could resist him, Master Courtney, who first learned his trade at the door of his mother's jam closet, expected no trouble. Last week, back in Manhattan, he told of his lock-picking jaunt...
...different in the old days. [He is in his 40's.] There wasn't so much to know then. Even a child could learn how to pick a warder lock." He learned to pick, and later make, locks by stealing into his mother's jam closet on their Virginia farm...
...your coat-shake your fists-hold your hands above your head." Mayor Cermak tried to get him to comply. When he still refused, Boss Cermak again loudly boasted that his nominee was unbossed. At last they photographed little Harry Horner sitting in a corner eating his toast and jam...
...request for a 25%, cut. Although most of the city's labor contracts do not expire until 1934, the reduction will become effective March i, will obtain for one year. "We feel confident," jointly announced the unions and the contractors, "the wage adjustment will unloosen the log jam that has gripped local construction work...