Word: springfields
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were murdered. Trains were dynamited, a bridge burned, and bombings became as common as rain. The state of law enforcement in the Illinois coal fields apparently is such that little attention is paid to shootings or murders. Last month 41 Progressive Unionists and sympathizers were brought to trial in Springfield, Ill. on Federal charges of conspiring to blow up trains and thus interfere with 1) the mails and 2) interstate commerce. Four of the defendants were dismissed, another had a heart attack. Last week a jury found the rest guilty on both counts. The maximum penalty is four years...
...tale told in the Federal Court in Springfield of union corruption, corporate connivance, espionage, counterespionage, death, terror and double-dealing made it apparent that morally if not legally the United Mine Workers and the coal operators were as guilty of fomenting civil war as the Progressive Miners of America...
Defended by Arthur M. Fitzgerald, able, liberal Springfield attorney, the miners could not deny the dynamitings but they vigorously denied responsibility for them. Behind the Government's prosecution they saw the heavy fist of John L. Lewis. Testimony showed that expenses of many a Government witness were paid not by the Government but by unknown persons, and the Progressives suspected John Lewis' United Mine Workers. One Government witness, a convicted murderer, could boast that John Lewis had intervened to get him paroled. Among the defendants there was also a convicted murderer. The Government produced a witness...
Getchell Partner John Veneroff Tarleton has become Picture's editor, Remie Lohse its head cameraman. Lest Getchell clients like Chrysler, DeSoto, Plymouth, Kelly-Springfield or Seagram's fear that he is neglecting his $8,000,000-a-year agency for the new magazine, Publisher Getchell wants it known that every bit of work he has or will put in on Picture comes at night and over the weekends...
...first team, Yale filled four positions and Springfield three to carry away the honors, but the Elis only received one post on the second eleven to tie with the Crimson booters in the total number of players picked for both squads...