Word: lateral
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bald, melon-headed John L. Lotsch, former Brooklyn banker and thriving patent lawyer until sentenced to prison on a bribery conviction of his own, testified that he procured $50,000 in loans for Judge Manton (later repaid) and paid $5.000 more to Bag-Man Fallon. Lotsch always got favorable decisions from Judge Manton. In addition, Lotsch's bank received deposits from receivers Judge Manton had appointed-one of whom, Milton C. Weisman, is law partner of Democratic Congressman Emmanuel Celler...
...darkness of the unflooded forward compartments the 33 who still lived began to wait. At intervals Lieutenant Naquin fired smoke bombs to ignite on the surface showing where the Squalus had sunk. He released a deck buoy containing a telephone. Four hours later the trapped men heard the engines of the Squalus' sister ship, Sculpin. Through the telephone buoy Lieutenant Naquin reported to the Sculpin what had happened before the line snapped. Nothing more could be done. Somebody mentioned the 26 men trapped behind the bulkhead door. The commander shut him up. The sea, icy cold at 240 feet...
...water, work was very slow. It took him 20 minutes to slide a shackle over a ring on the submarine's deck, clip a bolt through, tighten a nut. A cable was attached to the shackle. Before Sibitzky was back aboard the Falcon, nearly an hour later, the rescue bell, reeling in the line he had attached (see diagram), was pulling itself to the deck of the Squalus. There, two men working inside the chamber clamped the bell over a hatch like a swollen blister on the rump of the sunken ship. The hatch was opened and Lieut...
...just 29 hours after the Squalus had made its dive, the seven men were helped aboard the Falcon. At four o'clock, nine more men reached safety. Three hours later a third group of nine came up. Before nine o'clock the last living men aboard the Squalus, including Lieut. Naquin, were taken into the bell. They had got out just in time. Water in the batteries had begun to generate chlorine...
...restless, magnetic daughter of a pioneer Texas land baron who left an estate now valued at $10,000,000. She is president of one Corpus Christi bank, largest stockholder of another. She is known as "The Savior of the Alamo" because she once put up $65,000 (later repaid by the State) to keep commercial structures away from Texas' shrine. By the time she married Newspaperman Hal Sevier in 1906, Clara Driscoll had written two novels (The Girl of La Gloria, In the Shadow of the Alamo) and a musical comedy (Mexicana)* which the Brothers Shubert produced on Broadway...