Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...distributors of drugs and liquor, went down in the office basement with an unemployed liquor salesman named William E. O'Toole whose brother is a member of the Colorado House of Representatives. The manager handed O'Toole a check for $3,000 payable to the State in settlement of past due liquor taxes, which, according to a later audit, should have amounted to more than $22,000. The manager also handed O'Toole $3,000 in cash. "This is positively the last shakedown, now, isn't it?" he asked...
...barrels at that point stepped a deputy and investigators from the local district attorney's office, seized Fixer O'Toole, seized the check which he had hastily torn in half, the $3,000 of marked bills. Also seized was a letter from Secretary of State Carr acknowledging settlement of McKesson & Robbins' liquor taxes...
Foster's identification of Ryan, however, would seriously embarrass Colonel Charles R. Apted '06 for his hasty seizure of George. The authenticity of the report that Foster has already received an out-of-court settlement has not been reliably proved...
According to this 75 men have already begun social service work in settlement houses in South Boston, the North End, Jamaica Plain, and similar areas, while 120 have indicated their intention of signing up for work in the future...
...squadron is commanded by his brother Rear Admiral Sadasuke Araki. The glorious news: somebody had murdered a Japanese Marine in full uniform near the Japanese Naval headquarters. At this news in utter panic rich & poor Chinese alike fled from Chapei in the native quarter of Shanghai to the International Settlement which proved safe in 1932 when the Japanese blew Chapei to bloody smithereens. If the Araki Brothers were at it again, then woe to China, no matter who murdered the Japanese Marine. As a matter of course, Admiral Araki assumed the killer to be Chinese, posted some 2,000 Japanese...