Word: parceled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stateville. Held for murder, Prisoner James Day, a bantamweight larcenist of 23, swore he had killed in self-defense, told as foul a tale as has ever come over prison walls. He said that Loeb was an autocrat behind bars. As head of the prison school, he could parcel out soft jobs to fellow inmates. He ate in his cell and, by transferring sums from their well-stocked bank accounts, he and Leopold could get guards to do their bidding. Prison had only exaggerated Loeb's un- natural appetites. Day declared Loeb had first given him a job with...
...Because a concern for freedom of speech and civil liberties is part & parcel of whatever variety of belief radical ministers hold, they tingled to a report from the Methodist Federation for Social Service that "Fascist" terror, force, violence and intimidation were on the increase in 1935. Last Sunday all U. S. Unitarian ministers were invited to read and comment upon a "Statement on Civil and Religious Liberties" sent out by the Unitarian Department of Social Relations. The Statement particularly deplored teachers' oath statutes...
...Still another phase of the 'racket' indulged in by certain lay charlatans in the field is the manufacture of elaborate devices for the administration of colonic irrigations. These machines are part & parcel of the systematized skulduggery practiced by this not inconsiderable group of quacks...
...boxes at various drug stores, employed 150 letter carriers. Out-of-town mail was delivered either to the Government post office or to the Pony Express. In 1880 when the U. S. prohibited private mail-carrying, Boyd's went into a general delivery business. As the U. S. parcel post service developed. Boyd's again found itself in unprofitable competition with the Government, switched to its present business of compiling mailing lists. Thus smart Mr. Williams turned Boyd's old enemy-the U. S. Post Office-into its indispensable servant. The company has on file some...
...large lease was contracted with the company which operated the Keith's Memorial, and the vaudeville continued under Harvard walls. When the company decided that the theatre was becoming obsolete, Harvard agreed to its rebuilding, and bought a small parcel of land from the city of Boston to complete the lot and make the new theatre possible. In Pittsburg is another theatre from the estate of Keith; according to the residents of Pittsburg, this used to be a burlesque, but was recently converted into a motion picture house...