Word: pete
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Panzer division of the cab-and-car attack had rolled down a Mexican district side street, past the rows of mean, ramshackle frame houses. But they had only found a few victims to beat. One of them was a 17-year-old Russian boy, Pete Nogikoss, talking on a street corner to two Mexicans. The Mexicans fled. Pete stood still. The sailors beat him to the ground...
...Trooper Pete Reiser is chasing flies for a Cavalry nine at Fort Riley, Kans...
...world last week had a good, squabblesome book to squabble over. Its publication was celebrated by a gay party at Manhattan's Downtown Gallery. Surrounded by highly explosive canvases, Duke Ellington and Kansas City's boogie-woogie specialist Pete Johnson smote the piano while esthetic arguments added to the clamor. The book: Samuel M. Kootz's New Frontiers in American Painting (Hastings House...
King of the Black Market. In Chicago, Fulton Market buzzed with rumors about Pete Golas. Pete was paunchy (220 lb.), greying (52), scarfaced and vain. He refused to have his picture taken, as he considered a 15-year-old photograph (see cut) his best portrait. Until last fall, he was just a small-time peddler of livers and hearts. From dark meat to black meat was an easy step for Pete. He branched out grandly and mysteriously, bought control of a string of slaughterhouses from Omaha to Manhattan...
Last week a Federal grand jury indicted Pete Golas, ten other men and seven companies for conspiracy to evade price ceilings on meat. OPA investigators said that Pete and his henchmen took $650,000 "cash on the side" while selling $3,000,000 worth of beef in New York and New Jersey. Price Boss Prentiss Brown called Pete the nation's No. 1 meatlegger...