Word: slocum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drowned in the Kiangya sinking was about 2,750. Last month another (unidentified) Chinese vessel, evacuating troops from Manchuria, went down with 6,000 aboard. Among the greatest maritime disasters hitherto recorded: the Titanic (1912), which went down with 1,517; the Lusitania (1915) with 1,198; the General Slocum (1904) with...
...DODGERS (288 pp.)-Elmer L Irey, as told to William J. Slocum-Greenberg...
...months before his death, Irey (who had always discouraged publicity) was persuaded by a publisher to tell his story to William J. Slocum. The Tax Dodgers points up one of the unpleasantly ironical facts of political life in the U.S.: that pimps (like Bioff), murderers, political racketeers and mobsters can work at their trades with impunity, and are seldom brought to book for their most serious crimes...
REILLY OF THE WHITE HOUSE (248 pp.) -As told to William J. Slocum by Michael F. Reilly- Simon and Schuster...
Some observers think the Bulletin's new lease on life was drawn by a Philadelphia lawyer. As general manager, suave Richard Slocum, former law partner of Owen J. Roberts, is the McLeans' right-hand man, gets along famously with their staffers as well. His sights are already set on the first objective in the Bulletin's second century: finding newsprint for the new Sunday edition (circ. 650,000 after only nine weeks' existence) to compete with Walter Annenberg's Sunday Inquirer...