Word: petrash
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cell while he released his brother, Widmer and a 19-year-old youth named Theodore Slapik, awaiting trial for murder. The four descended from the fourth floor to the basement in an elevator, dashed out the front door. A few moments later they pulled Municipal Judge Louis Petrash out of the driver's seat of his car and roared off toward Cleveland's Public Square at 60 m. p. h. Disregarding traffic signals they mowed down a woman pedestrian, breaking both her arms and legs. With the doors swinging wide-open and tires screeching around corners, the convicts...
...Cleveland, with its 40% foreign-born and 65% foreign-blooded, a smartly attired gentleman named Chairman Louis Petrash was presiding over a meeting of the Welfare Committee of the City Council. Before the committee was a letter from the Communist Council of the Unemployed, which demanded immediate relief in money and work for 75,000 jobless Clevelanders...
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