Word: reuther
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reuther himself could not guess who had pulled the shotgun's trigger. Said he: "It could have been management, a Communist, a Fascist or a screwball. I can't put them in any order...
...Those Dirty Rats." It went off with a bright flash and a stunning roar just as Reuther stood up, with a dish in his hand, to get some fruit salad from the refrigerator. Glass tinkled, the dish flew into a thousand pieces. Reuther spun, staggered and fell to the floor like a man who had been clubbed. For a second there was no more sound. Mrs. Reuther stood transfixed. Reuther lay on his back, industriously trying to move his bloody right arm and deciding, with the casualness of shock, that it had been blown...
...Then Mae Reuther ran for towels, knelt, tried to stop the flow of her husband's blood. People burst into the kitchen. A neighborhood doctor arrived. Reuther said wildly: "Those dirty rats had to shoot a fellow in the back." An ambulance crew pushed in, carried him off to Grace Hospital...
...Reuther had missed death by an eyelash. He remembered turning a second before the blast-if he had not, his spine would have been blown out. Four heavy buckshot had plowed into his arm, shattering bone and tearing flesh. Another had entered his chest. But he would live, keep the arm and, with luck, regain...
...Could Have Been . .." Meanwhile police scoured the neighborhood for clues. A woman had seen a man's dark figure running across Reuther's backyard after the shot. Three boys had seen someone leap into an automobile-a red 1947 or 1948 Ford sedan-and drive madly away. By calculating the angle of fire, the cops decided that the gunman was 5 ft. 6 in. tall and righthanded. But who was he? Why had he fired...