Word: mikes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were the faces of several proud Manhattan bankers last week when they were exposed in Federal Court not for evil but for folly. In Judge William Bondy's courtroom, Michael ("Mike") Pecoraro, 39, a confessed swindler with at least 19 aliases, received an 18-month penitentiary sentence for having obtained $15,563 in 19 different loans from the National City Bank and Manufacturers Trust Company on 19 pieces of real estate...
Died. Michael J. ("Mike") Galvin, boss of Chicago's Truckdrivers, Chauffeurs & Helpers Union, oldtime labor lieutenant of the Teamsters' Boss Cornelius ("Con") Shea; of wounds inflicted by 29 slugs fired from shotguns by passing gunmen; in Chicago. In a 30-year feud between the Galvin "outlaw" union and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, assassins have shot down Bosses George ("Red") Barker, William ("Three-Fingered Jack") White and Paddy Berrell...
...darkest days of the 1929 stockmarket crash, when almost every rumor was a libel, Broker Michael J. ("Mike") Meehan sauntered up to one of his partners, said cheerily: "Well, I understand I'm broke. Guess we'd better give all the boys in the office a two weeks' bonus to prove...
Having pulled Radio Corp. of America to a high of $549 per share in the most spectacular pool operations of the New Era, Mike Meehan was certainly vulnerable when the great decline set in. How much of his fortune, once estimated at anywhere from $5,000,000 to $25,000,000, was lost in the next few years, no one who knows will tell. Presumably the figure was big enough to bother even optimistic Mr. Meehan. His firm did some heroic retrenching in the way of lopping off branch offices, including those at sea on crack transatlantic liners. But reports...
...yesterday's election, held in Dillon Field House, all lettermen took part in the voting. Of those, eight cast their ballots for the last time. They are Captain Gaffney, Bob Jones, Charley Kessler, and Mike Adlis, who were Yale game starters, and George Ford, Mal McTernen, George Hedblom, and Bill Watt, who also took a large part in the Eli fray...