Word: maier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...police lieutenant went to the electric chair. An indignant city began an investigation of police-protected vice which eventually put District Attorney Charles Whitman in the Governor's chair. Swirled up from the nether depths by this inquiry was a plump little 40-year-old German named David Maier. He had been a brothel keeper. During the investigation he had offered a hostile witness $50 to pervert his testimony. In March 1914, David Maier went to trial for bribery. On the witness stand he was asked and answered these questions...
...jury convicted David Maier on the bribery charge. He was sent to Sing Sing where he served two and one-half years...
With the enthusiasm of a dozen Martin Luthers pelting a dozen devils with inkpots, Rev. Dr. Walter A. Maier of Concordia Theological Seminary (St. Louis, Mo.) addressed 4,000 Lutherans last week at a Luther Day celebration at Ocean Grove...
...each & every lyric, tune and illustration approved by Pianist Maier, Sons Bob & Ted received 5¢. Pianist Maier rejected many, accepted and harmonized 20 for four-hand piano performance. Unpre tentious, graphically illustrated with squiggly pen & ink drawings by the two prodigies, the songs are short, pointed...
Musicritics found the tunes pleasant, guessed that no small credit would redound to proud Father Maier. But there was a discomforting thought: how to muzzle large, coy sopranos who would inevitably seize upon these roguish songs as encore numbers...