Word: murdered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Accomplishments by secret servicemen of various Great Powers in committing political murders from time to time with great neatness were well described in Harper's for last August. A favorite weapon is the pistol with Maxim silencer. After its slight "phht" the secret agent, having accomplished a murder which his Government highly approves and considers "vital to the safety of the Fatherland," hails a passing taxi, speeds to the nearest convenient railway station, is usually over the frontier of the country in which his pistol went "phht" before the killing is discovered...
...solid members of that town's Chamber of Commerce sat down to compose as grave a memorandum of censure as Press and Radio ever received from a responsible U. S. body. Grievance of the Tacoma businessmen was the handling by newsgatherers for ink & air of the kidnap-murder of 10-year-old Charles Mattson (TIME, Jan. 18). Sternly the Chamber of Commerce members agreed that newsmen had made "gross mistakes that many people believe may have prevented the return of this child, unharmed," listed what they thought were some of the worst errors...
...late 90's Theodore Roosevelt versus gamblers and scofflaw saloonkeepers, in 1902-09 William Travers Jerome versus vice and gambling, in 1905 Charles Evans Hughes versus insurance companies. Charles S. Whitman's sensational exposure of official corruption in his prosecution of Police Lieutenant Charles Becker for the murder of Gambler Herman Rosenthal in 1912 put Whitman in the Governor's chair. In 1930 Judge Samuel Seabury exposed the magistrates' courts and the next year started the disclosures which ran Mayor Jimmy Walker out of town. Despite these periodic spasms of civic indignation, crime marched on, burgeoning...
...racketeer. In such highly-organized industries as New York City's, a strike is a paralyzing weapon. After a few samples, the mere threat of strike is usually enough to keep businessmen in line. The racketeer employs sluggings, bombings, window-smashings as supplementary discipline. But he shrinks from murder, resorts to an occasional killing only to prove that he means business. Hand in glove with the corrupt labor union usually works a "trade association." Sometimes it is organized by racketeers who force reputable businessmen to serve as a front...
...injured husband, the overseer of his big peach plantation was acquitted of the murder. After the Slappey heirs had taken their shares of his estate, there was $60,000 to $75,000 left for the dog hospital. The heirs wanted that too, started action to break the will. As superior court Judge Malcolm D. Jones pondered his decision in Macon last week, Georgia lawyers opined that unless George Slappey was proved crazy when he wrote his will, Snowball would have its memorial...