Word: knife
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sept. 27). For not replying in full, the SEC came in for considerable criticism from New Dealers. So when the SEC fell to Chairman William Orville Douglas, he began negotiating with the Stock Exchange for a letter to be written by President Gay explaining that the Exchange had no knife sharpened for the SEC and reviewing the Exchange's own plans to keep its house in order. No less than 15 versions of the letter were composed by the Exchange's law committee, sent to Washington and promptly sent back as unsatisfactory. Last week, suddenly losing patience, Bill...
...ordered them back to the failing pumps, confident the old freighter, bought from the U. S. Maritime Commission, would ride out the storm. . As their plight grew worse. Third Engineer Bortas Balaskas slipped into the radio room at 4:15 a. m., stood over the operator with drawn knife, commanded him to break the captain's orders and send a call for help. It was too late. Dislodged as the gale tossed the ship, the Tzenny Chandris' cargo shifted. She listed crazily, water rose in the hold, the pumps ceased as the freighter foundered. All hands scrambled excitedly...
...hanging over the back of a chair within Marlowe's reach. Marlowe and Frizer may have argued over the bill. Poley may have been under orders to get Marlowe drunk and kill him. But the coroner's account has it that Marlowe grabbed Frizer's knife, whereupon the blade was turned upon himself, pushed down, entering the flesh above the right eye and plunging two inches into the frontal lobe of a brain that had been, until that instant, as powerful, creative, original, as any in the history of English literature...
Before Jacksonville, Fla., the first port-of-call, was reached quarrels among the crew had alarmed the captain and his four New England mates. Ashore in the Florida port the brawls, revolving around John Burgess, a fiery Californian, continued. In a waterfront saloon Burgess drew a knife, stabbed a fellow seaman, was promptly shot and killed by a landlubber. Shipped in his place was J. Hartley, an agitator more troublesome than Burgess...
Briefly, the Dewey record goes like this. He struck from the first at the loan shark racket, and by convicting twenty-one usurers put a million-dollar a week business out of commission. Then, in rapid time, the system of organized vice controlled by 'Lucky' Luciano felt the knife, and after extraditing Luciano from Hot Springs, Arkansas, where that worthy went to hide out, Dewey convicted him for a prison stretch of thirty-five to fifty years. Then the restaurant trade, which had been victimized by a series of fake labor unions and "protective associations" to the tune of millions...