Word: proprietor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bedaux Week. To most of the U. S., Efficiency Expert Bedaux has long been a mysterious figure known only as the proprietor of the Chateau de Cande where the Duke and Duchess were married last June and as the inventor of something called the "Bedaux hour."* To U. S. Labor, Efficiency Expert Bedaux is not mysterious at all. Labor regards the Bedaux hour as synonymous with the "stretch-out" and "speed-up," considers Efficiency Expert Bedaux, whose system is used in 1,000 plants throughout the world, one of its bitterest enemies. Arrival of Efficiency Expert Bedaux caused an immediate...
Police first interested themselves in Mrs. Hahn one hot day last August. The proprietor of a Colorado Springs hotel, which she had just visited in the company of an aging but adventurous cobbler named George Obendoerfer, notified them of the loss of $305 worth of diamond rings. After tracing the theft to Mrs. Hahn, police found that Cobbler Obendoerfer had died the day after his escapade, poisoned by arsenic and croton oil. Further researches into Mrs. Hahn's career, which promptly took the form of exhuming corpses, suggested a curiously Teutonic fixity of purpose. Each corpse was that...
Early autumn with frost in the air-just before the shooting season opens-is a busy time at Dakin's sporting goods and hardware store on Central Street in the quiet little city of Bangor, Me. Proprietor Everett ("Shep") Hurd would not have been at all surprised one day last month when three undersized young men bought two .45 Colt automatics and a generous supply of ammunition, except for one fact...
When the men left, after ordering another Colt and a .35 automatic Winchester rifle, promising to drop in to get them in a few weeks, Proprietor Hurd, to be on the safe side, called the Bangor police. The Bangor police called the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Washington. To the F.B.I. Mr. Kurd's description of his customers sounded exactly like Al Brady, Clarence Lee Shaffer Jr. and James Dalhover, notorious midwest bank robbers, who liked to boast that John Dillinger was only a "creampuff" bandit. These diminutive badmen (all three between...
Southern lynchings customarily end with the death of the mob's victim. Last week's reverse lynching had a reverse ending. To a Birmingham hospital went Negro Alvin Hill, seriously wounded by two .45 calibre bullets. Into a Birmingham jail five hours later strolled Clarence Higginbotham, white proprietor of the "Bloody Bucket." He confessed to the shooting, said he had been afraid Hill and three Negro companions were going to try some of that "lynch stuff...