Word: lock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days of Dr. James Monroe Smith as head of Louisiana State University, a Federal Grand Jury in New Orleans charged last week, a ruthless group of five politicos sold L. S. U. the Bienville Hotel for $575,000, lock, stock & barrel, then sold the hotel fixtures again to the University for another...
...Martinsville were Alex Wilson, 75, and Nicholas Barcus, 74, friends since boyhood. Last week Nick was dead of a fractured skull and Alex in jail, charged with murder. Said Alex Wilson: "Nick and me, we never had any trouble. ... It was all over a little argument about Nick locking the door. He came up with a cane and said whoever said he locked the door was a liar. And I shouted back to him that he did lock it. Then he swung his cane at me ... so I swung back. ... I guess I must have hit him on the head...
When San Francisco's Golden Gate International Exposition opened last February, it figured to break even if it could lock 24,000,000 admissions in a ten month run. Last week after nearly four months, it had clocked 3,600,000. Although summer, with its crowds, is coming, the Exposition, which has averaged 32,000 visitors a day in the past, would have to almost quadruple daily attendance to hit 24,000,000-which is too much even for California optimism. Mired in debts, the Exposition even acknowledged last week to owing the city of San Francisco four months...
Very visible and very audible in Chicago last week was the Congress' beaming president, Albert Garrette Burns, who describes himself as "just 210 Ibs. of happy harmony." California-born 51 years ago, Albert Burns invented a lock for Model T Fords, sold 800,000. He worked in a tea and coffee store, directed a chamber of commerce, ran a wholesale business, managed a sanitarium and some textile mills, invented and marketed a successful bread-slicer. He joined the National Inventors Congress in 1928, became its paid president (at $3,600 a year) in 1931. His function...
...gentle-souled German pastor wrote a friend: "Here I was-actually in prison, properly under lock and key! . . . I could not help thinking of old D. Traugott Hahn, who in his prison at St. Petersburg knew full well that, while innocent before man, before God he had deserved prison a thousand times over, just as I have. So God has blessed me by humbling me under His mighty hand...