Word: sent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Milwaukee sent him to Congress as the first Socialist representative.* Appalled, Washington gaped at this ''political monster" who was no monster at all but a round German burgher, bald, shuffling, infinitely good-natured. Re-elected in 1918, he was refused his House seat by a vote of 309 to 1 because of his pacifist doctrines. In 1919 he was again elected, again barred. Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis in February, 1919, passed on him the verdict of "espionage," sentenced him, with a flourish, to 20 years' imprisonment. He never served a day of it. Higher courts reversed...
When newly-elected, oldish President Samuel Matthews Vauclain of Philadelphia's gigantic Baldwin Locomotive Works sent $6,965,000 worth of locomotives on credit in July 1919, to the War-torn infant Republic of Poland, his board of directors thought keen level-headed "Sam" Vauclain had forsaken business for his favorite role of philanthropist. They worried. All Europe was financially unbalanced by post War deflation. Poland was still at desperate grips with the Red Army of new Bolshevik Russia. Furthermore, the Baldwin Locomotive Works was at the dangerous stage of turning from Wartime manufactures, productive...
...Dundee, who lurched to his hands and knees. He was scarcely up at the count of "nine!" when the fast Fields deposited him again on the canvas. Dundee crawled across the ring. Then he reared swiftly and, as Fields jumped forward, discharged a long right-handed foul which sent the challenger writhing to the floor and automatically made him champion. In his dressing room Fields regained speech but not memory. Said he: "How did it happen? What happened? How did he flatten me? How did I win?" About 30,000 people paid $125,000 to see the foul...
...recognition soon came to the Harrises. In 1926, the Enquirer-Sun received the Pulitzer Prize for journalism for "disinterested and meritorious public service," and Julian Harris was placed on the Pulitzer advisory award jury. And when, last year, the Enquirer-Sun celebrated its 100th anniversary, many a famed journalist sent praising messages to the Editors Harris...
...discovering how the murder really happened, forebore to reveal his knowledge to the State. The story differs from others of its ilk in that, in the usual denouement of ''bringing the criminal to justice," justice here involves neither police-courts nor retribution. Murder at Bratton Grange is sent out by the Detective Story Club...