Word: pottered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...headed William E. ("Rarin' Bill") Potter, Cleveland councilman until ousted in connection with that city's land-grant scandals in 1928-29, dropped into the City Hall within the fortnight for a chat with some of his old friends. They stood in an alcove long known ironically as "The Statesman's Window," from the highly political railleries exchanged there when voluble Mr. Potter was on the Council. Perhaps they discussed some of the 13 suits which have been started against him since 1924, or the perjury trial against him then pending, or the fact that...
Theories as to the motive for killing Potter were varied. One said he had been "put on the spot" by racketeers. Another called attention to the fact that one Liston Schooley, like Potter a city official ousted by the land-scandal investigations in 1929 (and like him, an old gossiper in "The Statesman's Window"), was about to give further testimony concerning those scandals before a grand jury. Observers wondered if Potter, in order to obtain funds for attorneys' fees in his forthcoming trial, had offered to supplement what was known in the land-grant case...
...first time that the seconds will have wrestled as a team. The men leaving are: 115-pound class: David Weld; 125-pound class: A. G. Kandoian; 135-pound class: P. S. Ratzkoff; 145-pound class: M. F. Topalian; 155-pound class: R. W. Merry; 165-pound class: J. A. Potter; 175-pound class: W. M. Dennis...
...Pope is respected only by domestic animals." Mrs. Margaret Sanger, birth control apostle: ". . . An insult to the intelligence of women." Rt. Rev. Benjamin Franklin Price Ivins, bishop coadjutor of Milwaukee (Episcopal): "Either birth control is generally practiced in America, or most women are incapable of motherhood." Humanist Charles Francis Potter: ". . . The new generation of Roman Catholics is quietly disregarding the teachings of that Church about birth control. There are fifty-four clinics in the United States giving contraceptive information, and in every one of them the Roman Catholic women come in equal numbers with the Protestants and the Jews...
...some children there. Naturally, the adventures have been telescoped, but most of the best ones are left -Tom showing off for Becky Thatcher, being tortured by his conscience because he and Huck Finn and Joe Harper are in on the secret that Injun Joe and not old Muff Potter killed the doctor; playing pirate on a raft; coming to his own funeral. John Cromwell's direction is rapid and expert. The only weak spot is Huck Finn (Junior Durkin) who has been edged almost out of the story because a separate picture about him is going to be made...