Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Preparing to rehash all the old familiar points of the case, Mooney's counsel during the first week introduced only one novelty: the theory that the fatal explosive was not planted in the street by Mooney or anyone else, but was tossed off a roof by unknown dynamiters. Admittedly the defense lost an opening play to the State's Deputy Attorney General when the Supreme Court refused to define the admissibility of testimony which the referee might hear, a move which, according to Mooney, invited the State to fight him with material ranging from the Haymarket Riots to last year...
...Sleepy Senator Reynolds, who is trying to prove that he can tour 9,000 miles of the U. S. at a cost of $100 per person, climbed out, drove to another street. Next morning a garageman reported that Senator Reynolds & friends, annoyed by the patter of rain on their roof, had left in a taxicab, spent the night at a hotel. "We spent the night right here!" bristled the Senator. Welcoming cameramen in his sumptuous trailer, he led them through sleeping quarters and study to the galley, where he rolled up his sleeves, draped a towel around his middle, wiped...
McCrory. Operating 203 5¢ to $1 retail units in Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, the South and Midwest, McCrory Stores Corp. slipped into bankruptcy in 1933, came under the broad roof of Section 77b a year and a half later. Old John G. McCrory, who founded the chain at Scottdale, Pa. in 1882, resigned as board chairman to be free to bid for the bankrupt properties. But in the stormy annals of McCrory's reorganization it was not John G. McCrory who played the major role but two brothers named George Keenan Morrow and Frederick Morrow...
...Minister to Austria. Last year Minister Earle resigned his post to run for Governor of Pennsylvania. Anthony Joseph Drexel ("Tony") Biddle Jr., rich Philadelphia socialite, contributed handsomely to his friend George Earle's campaign fund. One evening last week after a farewell dinner on the Starlight Roof of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria hotel "Tony" Biddle gratefully gripped Governor Earle's hand.* sailed off to be Minister to Norway (TIME, July...
...doubt it was suicide," said the police officer who found Ray Long in his Beverly Hills bedroom last week, dead in his pajamas, a hole in the roof of his mouth, a small-bore rifle nearby...