Word: reasoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pendergast got into so queasy a mess. According to the prosecution, Boss Tom wagered $2,000,000, lost $600,000 on horse races in 1935 alone. "It has been a mania with him," said Defense Attorney (and Democratic County Chairman) John G. Madden. Lawyer Madden pleaded heart trouble as reason for a light sentence: "Imprisonment would mean death. He can't survive if he enters a cell . . . . Here we have death in life. . . . I ask the utmost clemency...
...Polish customs house by a German mob; his party was attacked, compelling his chauffeur to fire in self-defense. To this the German version bears little resemblance: there was merely an orderly demonstration against "molestations" of German girls by Polish officials, and Gustav Gruebner was plugged for no reason at all. The Nazi-controlled Danzig Government through the Senate President promptly demanded compensation for Butcher Gustav's bereaved relatives, apologies, and the surrender of the "murderer." The Poles made counter-demands: punishment of those guilty of the attack on the customs house, compensation for damages and assurances...
...recent months there has been less anti-Japanese terrorism in the Shanghai International Settlement than in Shanghai territory ruled exclusively by Japan. But Japanese suspect, with reason, that many of Japan's murdered Chinese puppets have been killed by assassins lying low in the Settlement...
Immediate reason for Harry Sinclair's pronunciamento was a small loss on Consolidated's operations in the first quarter (figures not made public). Since last year when the Government convicted a batch of the major oil companies under the Sherman Act, fear of further anti-trust suits has kept oilmen from attempting to do anything about relieving the market of distress gasoline stocks, which have reached an unwieldy total. Refiners now get an average of .7 cents a gallon less than they did last year. Crude production, however, has been kept within reasonable bounds by State proration laws...
...Reason for the detour: In forced landings in Germany on the Vienna-London run, Jewish passengers with through tickets were taken up by the Gestapo and disappeared. Presumably they wound up in concentration camps...