Word: killinger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into Colorado's new lethal gas chamber at Canon City last week Warden Roy Best put a crated hog. When he turned on the gas the hog squealed, struggled, died. Next into the chamber he put an old dog, a pigeon, a brace of canaries. They all died. Nearby...
Peruvian irregulars raped Leticia from Colombia in the first place (TIME, Feb. 6, 1933. et seq.). The real trouble has been that the Peruvian Government, while not overanxious to keep the ravished province, found the rape excessively popular in Peru and for months did not know how to let Leticia...
One of Baruch's first coups was to buy control of Liggett & Myers for Ryan who was then forming his notorious Tobacco Trust. In 1901 he made a killing on the short side of Amalgamated Copper. Early in his career he was almost wiped out on the short side...
Least of his differences from "the ferocious cigar-chewing men" who taught him his trade was that he usually played an independent hand in his speculations. More than that, he had a philosophical as well as a speculative cast of mind. After his killing in Amalgamated Copper, when he was...
His attitude of mind caused him in 1912 to become instantly a friend of that reforming politician, Woodrow Wilson. Five years later when Baruch was accused of using that friendship to make his killing in Steel. Congressional questioning showed a new side of him. Reading between the lines of utterances...