Word: planting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...understand its many aspects. ... As a result of our efforts, I trust that the public will be more fully enlightened on the subject of crime, and thereby able to formulate definite policies concerning that important social question." Farther back in the magazine Publisher Theodore Epstein, who runs a printing plant, took a more sensational tack by advertising: "SING SING . . . ALCATRAZ . . . JOLIET . . . SAN QUENTIN. Do these names and others, mean anything to you? A quarter of a million men and women are behind the bars today of Federal, State, County and City jails or reformatories. Their true stories comprise a veritable...
Georgia: malaria control in Dublin; clearing woodland in Cairo; converting a depot into a common house in Wrens; opening, clearing and straightening the channel of Tanyard Stream in Barnesville; a fertilizer plant in Catoosa County; repairs on court house in Donalsonville; paving sidewalk in Tallapoosa; sanitation pit project of 400 units in Cairo; renovation of school in Blakely; bridge in Thomson; road improvement in Trenton...
...following a rash of local strikes and street violence, the Times plant was bombed. Many were injured, 20 killed. "O, you anarchic scum," cried General Otis, "you cowardly murderers, you leeches upon honest labor, you midnight assassins!" Viewing the destruction of the building, in ruins save for a portion of wall where perched the Times eagle, a local poet named Drayton Pitts spontaneously declaimed...
...Eugene Debs, the resurgent Socialist Party, many a liberal advanced the belief that General Otis had himself destroyed his plant. The General, who had mounted a small cannon on the hood of his automobile, impatiently waited for Detective William J. Burns to find the bombers. Sleuth Burns found the Brothers John J. and James B. McNamara, Iron Workers Union dynamiters, kidnapped them from Indianapolis and Detroit to Los Angeles. The trial in 1911 caused such serious nationwide friction on the labor-capital front that many a cool head feared a workers' revolution. Then, at the last moment, the Brothers...
...long ago as 1919 a project was broached which would include the site of the Times plant at First and Broadway in a civic centre. For sentimental reasons, Harry Chandler opposed the plan, had his corner exempted. Ten years later, however, the County bought for a State building the property behind the Times, ordered the Times to move out. In 1930 the Times agreed to do so if paid $1,846,000 for its land, 18-year-old building and machinery. A great political howl rose, followed by condemnation proceedings which awarded Mr. Chandler $1,021,345 for his building...