Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that a handsome profit could be made by assessing each prostitute $10 per week for bail bond, on a guarantee that she would never be jailed. One autumn day Lucania, a gambler and narcotic seller known as "Lucky Luciano" or "Charlie Lucky,"summoned the bondsmen to conference in a Lower East Side restaurant. After a few words with a lieutenant named "Little Davie" Betillo, he turned to the conferees, barked: "You guys are through. I'm giving the business to Little Davie...
...church administration and finance, religious welfare work). During the first year, Union students get their first taste of practical field work as settlement-house teachers, Sunday-school leaders, Y. M. C. A. workers, assistant pastors in Manhattan churches. To help students pay their expenses, Union offers scholarships to the lower classmen...
...share of the $4,000,000 estate which the Government seized after Barnett's death two years ago. On the grounds that she and two men forced the demented old redskin to wed her, her marriage was annulled two months before Barnett's death. Since then, lower courts have held that she cannot share in the rich oil estate. Last week, in Los Angeles, frustrated, 50-year-old Mrs. Lowe published a lurid booklet named Truth to air her grievances. Twenty-three pages long, Truth is illustrated by photographs of Indian Barnett before and after marriage...
Still sniffing oil, Dick Norton, on the strength of his gas, made a deal with United Gas Public Service Co., (an Electric Bond & Share unit controlled through Electric Power & Light) for a test drilling of lower sands in the Rodessa region. When the first Rodessa oil gushed into United Gas's slush pits last July it came from 6,000 feet down. Two months later a 25,000-barrel well brought in a mile and a half to the northeast proved that the Rodessa field, at this depth, extended over a respectable area. Since then more than...
This system of sections and conference groups would make instruction easier for the section man, and would create interest among those students who are now forced to listen to explanations of material that they have mastered. Also the lower grade man could be given fuller instruction in the basic material which he was not grasped, not being exposed to the extraneous discussion of men of conference rank...