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Word: pinckley (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other aristocratic records were ready to fall. One afternoon William Pinckley, stalwart (6 ft.-2 in.) deputy marshal, rode up Fifth Avenue in a taxi and descended before a supersmart apartment house at No. 2 East 70th St. He ascended to the seventh floor and announced he had a warrant to serve on Joseph Wright Harriman, Esq. Two starched trained nurses fell upon him. Five minutes later Mr. Pinckley was riding down Fifth Avenue to tell his superior that Mr. Harriman would die if arrested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Bedroom, Jail, Death | 3/27/1933 | See Source »

...Harriman's honors, within an hour after Deputy Pinckley fled for fear of murdering him by the shock of arrest, a U. S. marshal took up his stand in the hall of the Harriman apartment and two doctors, one of them appointed by the U. S. Attorney, examined Mr. Harriman. "Coronary thrombosis," they said, "a very precarious condition." But the warrant was read to the patient, a U. S. Commissioner appeared, and Mr. Harriman, wearing a white hospital smock tied behind his neck, was arraigned in his bed. A nurse raised him up and, taking a fountain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Bedroom, Jail, Death | 3/27/1933 | See Source »

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