Word: rewarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bust the big racketeering trusts, descended upon Harlem with devastating effect, scaring the wits out of most of the bankers and collectors. Most of the busy executives of the industry left the city. Six months later Dixie Davis and eleven others were indicted. Dixie Davis had a $5,000 reward put on his head...
...society almost totally governed by the law of the quid pro quo, it is gratifying to see men going out of their way to serve the public interest without hope of reward. It has meant a great deal of work on the part of Dr. McKhann and the other doctors whom he has persuaded to speak. It is not easy for a specialist to make himself clear to a lay audience, let alone make himself popular. It has called for laborious preparation as well as the sacrifice of a Sunday afternoon. Yet the success of the series is obvious from...
Almost as difficult as the task of finding out who kidnapped Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. has been the subsequent task of finding out who was responsible for finding Bruno Richard Hauptmann. In 1932, New Jersey posted a reward of $25,000 for the capture of the kidnapper. Ever since Hauptmann was executed two years ago the State has been trying to decide who earned it. This week in Trenton, Governor Harold G. Hoffman announced ten recipients...
...William Strong and William Cody who identified ransom bills; $1,000 to Walter Lyle's co-worker John J. 'Lyons for taking the $10 bill to Teller Strong; $1,000 each to four witnesses who helped identify Hauptmann; $500 to a fifth, and the balance of the reward to be divided among a hundred others...
...further proof he added that two waiters had instantly identified Burgess' picture on the reward poster as that of the man who had been eating there for three days...