Word: lock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Master Courtney was positive that he could open the chests. Declared he: "There isn't a lock made that hasn't its weak point." In his Manhattan shop, whose basement is the Grand Lodge Room of his A. A. M. L., he has a million keys, thousands of locks, a model airplane built entirely of lock parts and keys. The airplane's radio and engine function. Master Courtney declares that he can fit a key to any motor car if he has the manufacturer's number and if he is sure that the applicant...
...Russell T. Sherwood, a financial agent of the Mayor's, fled the city ten months ago when subpenaed by the Committee? How had he managed to bank $700,000 in five years on a salary which had never exceeded $10,000? Why did he share a lock box with Mayor Walker...
...back so he ''wouldn't have to go through these two days." If the $700,000 was inferred to belong partly to him, Mayor Walker said he "hoped [the Inquisitor] proves it is mine. I'd try and collect it" (Laughter). The lock box, he explained, had been shared when Mayor Walker was in the State Senate and practiced law in a firm for which Sherwood was accountant. It had been used by the Mayor as a repository for papers relating to one law case. To him Fugitive Sherwood was simply an unpaid secretary who took...
...Lock & Logic? The speculative logic of a Baker nomination at Chicago rests squarely upon a convention deadlock such as seemed to be in the making last week. Franklin Delano Roosevelt still lacked a majority of first-ballot votes which has clinched the nomination at every convention since 1848.? Bitterly leagued against him were the Smith and Garner forces, which, with "favorite son" votes, might yet constitute a veto of Governor Roosevelt's ambition. Groggy from such a factional fight, the convention would, as it did in 1924, turn to some outsider who had not figured in the fray...
Ashes, It was 3 o'clock on the morning after the discovery of his child's crumpled body that Col. Lindbergh drove up a Trenton alley and went into the frame morgue building. When he looked at the remains, one report said, he fainted. He asked for a lock of his child's hair. Next afternoon he returned to make an official identification of the remains. Then, as mute housewives watched over their back fences, he came out of the building following some men with a small oak box. He and Col. Henry Breckinridge, his companion and legal adviser through...