Word: putting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...began to look as though Gerhart was operating strictly under his own steam and was perhaps a victim of his own ego. Carol King, his attorney and a longtime defender of Communists, almost exploded when she heard that he had jumped his $23,500 bail-money that had been put up by Communist-front groups. Cried she: "Reprehensible...
...time Gerhart walked into Bow Street Police Court this week he was-in an international sort of way-hotter than a sheriff's pistol. He was ordered to show cause why he should not be extradited to the U.S., and put in jail without bail for the eight days until the hearing begins...
...couldn't talk when he asked me what was wrong. I was numb and sick all over. He finally made me put the babies in their beds. Then he put his hands on my shoulders and shook me lightly until I could talk again. The rest of that scene wasn't very pleasant and I don't suppose either of us will ever forget it. But the important thing is that before the evening was over, we were planning to take the babies to New York to see what could be done for them...
...three hoodlums had raced out of the building, fought off Milletti and got away. At the hospital, Willie's wife, Beatrice, sat beside him until, around midnight, he was ready for the operating room. Then Willie managed a thin grin and said: "Why don't you put some lipstick on and quit crying? You better go home and take care of your kids." Four hours later he was dead...
Shoulder to Shoulder. One hundred cops were put on the case, padding patiently from one building to the next in the garment center, questioning 400 people. The great I.L.G.W.U. rose in its wrath. It offered $25,000 for the conviction of Willie's murderers, ordered 65,000 dressmakers to quit work for four hours to attend his funeral...