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...Brooklyn), the Charles Pratts; George's Son Explorer Sherman; Charles's Son Banker Harold Irving: the late John's widow ex-Congresswoman Ruth. There were a huge Christmas tree and wreaths from the family's greenhouse adjoining their Long Island estate. Philadelphia police arrested a milkman named William Schultze who on threat of bodily harm had tried to extort $30,000 from Lessing Rosenwald (Sears Roebuck) to "go into the pasteurization business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 1, 1934 | 1/1/1934 | See Source »

...combined persuasiveness of a social worker and the Greek Catholic priest, gradually began to tell with Vasko. Said he: "If the court says I must take out the child's eye, then all right. But my wife, she still is not willing." But one morning early, a milkman saw the Vaskos, with their three children, bundles and one suitcase, steal from their house, climb into a dilapidated automobile, flee town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Parents v. Society | 4/24/1933 | See Source »

...currency shortage found counterfeiters unprepared to take advantage of their great opportunity. Only reported attempt to do so was that of a Negro in Baltimore who gave a false 50? piece for a bottle of milk. Discovered, he clubbed the milkman with the bottle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Money & People | 3/13/1933 | See Source »

...chap who solemnly asserted that he spent all his time studying. "Yes, of course," Crimson chell agreed, politely, trying hard to avoid looking at the debrit of last night's poker game. Then there was the Freshman who said, "Me? Sure I go out every night; the milkman puts me to bed. But don't publish that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson's Walter Winchell Tracks Down Nightly Habits and Haunts of Upperclassmen--Finds Freshmen Studious | 2/25/1933 | See Source »

...Pittsburgh Mary Sleek, 23. clad only in a veil, rushed into the street, hailed a milkman, ordered him to drive to the police station, told police she had shot her husband through the foot because he refused to apologize for coming home late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Father | 8/29/1932 | See Source »

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