Word: marshals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Shanghai, where he had lived in constant terror of kidnapping since fleeing Japan's invasion of Jehol, disgraced Marshal Chang Hsiao-Hang, resigned ruler of Peiping, sailed for Italy with his wife and 17 female "secretaries...
Last week the owner-occupant of the mansion had worse than mortgages pay-able-on-demand to think about. One evening the momentary peace of his after-dinner cigaret was shattered by the entrance of a U. S. marshal who promptly arrested him. Not even allowed to summon his own chauffeur, he was whisked downtown to a Federal judge in an automobile which the marshal had hastily borrowed. One of the prisoner's battalion of lawyers, Robert H. Thayer, suddenly called from a party, arrived in the courtroom in evening clothes, arranged for $10,000 bail. Two hours later...
Other aristocratic records were ready to fall. One afternoon William Pinckley, stalwart (6 ft.-2 in.) deputy marshal, rode up Fifth Avenue in a taxi and descended before a supersmart apartment house at No. 2 East 70th St. He ascended to the seventh floor and announced he had a warrant to serve on Joseph Wright Harriman, Esq. Two starched trained nurses fell upon him. Five minutes later Mr. Pinckley was riding down Fifth Avenue to tell his superior that Mr. Harriman would die if arrested...
...Harriman's honors, within an hour after Deputy Pinckley fled for fear of murdering him by the shock of arrest, a U. S. marshal took up his stand in the hall of the Harriman apartment and two doctors, one of them appointed by the U. S. Attorney, examined Mr. Harriman. "Coronary thrombosis," they said, "a very precarious condition." But the warrant was read to the patient, a U. S. Commissioner appeared, and Mr. Harriman, wearing a white hospital smock tied behind his neck, was arraigned in his bed. A nurse raised him up and, taking a fountain...
Boston can again be proud of its mouth-piece and intellectual field-marshal. The present issue is a strong one and ably pricks three contemporary American bubbles; Truth in Advertising (by Don Knowlton), Huey Long (by Frank R. Kent), Radio City (by M. R. Werner); and it tramples on two that have already undergone quick deflation, notably in "The Veteran Racket" by Lawrence Sullivan and "From Insull to Injury, a Study in Financial Jugglery" by N. R. Danelian. There are also the confessions of Edith Wharton...