Word: sheriffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when the Dispatch was knocked down at a sheriff's sale on the courthouse steps to the highest bidder, Pulitzer had $2,500 to pay for it, $2,700 to run it. He bought. Three hundred dollars of his capital he reserved against the expenses of the forthcoming birth of his eldest child. With the rest, he made newspaper history...
...Jewish producers and bland rewrite men. Imperia Starling snatches Ambrose Deacon to her Italio-Spanish-Tudor-Romanesque villa, gives him a small dinner party for 60 or 80, makes passionate love to him, orders him to write her a script. He escapes to New Mexico. She pursues with a sheriff. In self-defense he signs a rival producer's contract, and marries a sub-star from Kansas City, to the luxurious jingle of magnificent jewels, gilt-edged limousines, plum-colored footmen, in short−Hollywood. The author handles his glittering incredible material with staccato brilliance...
Thomas Garfield Sterrett, hardboiled retired Major of the U. S. Marines, onetime orderly for President Roosevelt, alleged inventor of "the Leathernecks" as a nickname for the Marines, alleged onetime manager of "the two biggest advertising agencies in New York," sheriff of Erie County, Pa., and President of the Pennsylvania State Sheriffs' Association, said: "To hell with the District Attorney of Crawford County and Prohibition...
Bloodthirst hankered for three weeks in Vernon and Rapides Parishes, La., after the killing of Deputy Sheriff J. Frank Phillips by William Blackman, black man. Police slew Blackman in turn, promptly. Then they protected Blackman's brothers, Lee and Dave Blackman, by locking them in the Leesville jail...
...Dave had done nothing but be born their brother's brothers. But the Parish people wanted more blood. Sheriff Turner guessed the Blackman brothers had better be moved to the Shreveport jail. Three deputies fetched them in a car, one day last week...