Word: piper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Florida days, Silver Bob Alexander. That afternoon the double zero of life's roulette wheel came up for Gambler Ballard: Alexander, 33, was said to be down on his luck, bitter against Ballard, whom he had unsuccessfully sued for $250,000 for breach of contract. Pat Piper, a Chicago bookmaker in the next room, was struck by a piece of plaster when a bullet crashed through the wall. When detectives broke down the door they found Ballard seated in a chair with a bullet through his heart, Alexander dying, a suicide...
...Underwood tariff schedules, did not suffice to keep the country out of the most disastrous war in world history. Altogether, Mr. Hull has claimed the moon for his pet policy, and, as is always the case under the New Deal, the American public, producer and consumer alike, pays the piper...
...openly such venerable institutions as Wall Street itself, which was good enough for Alexander Hamilton and should be good enough for us. What have our weak, corrupt, immigration authorities to say about the presence in this country of Father Coughlin, the Canadian-born, the arch-alien, un-American Pied Piper, with his wicked song about a central bank? Soviet Russia has a central bank, and Josef Stalin cannot wait until similar Communistic chains are laid across the backs of free Americans...
...Varsity Fifties are coming along slowly with a decent-enough showing for this time of the season in spite of two Yale veterans out, Piper and Adams. Piper has not rowed since before vacation and with these two men soon to return the Varsity Fifty boat should begin to develop rapidly...
Sage sees Crimson flowering in Garden. If other teams Woodward off Jaakkomen they dare pull no Bohner for there is no Badman on Harvard squad. Huey sees where Dartmouth will pay the Piper Button the other hand Sage's Godshall help local boys win. Tally-Harvard 37, Cornell 36, Yale 29, Dartmouth...