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...last three weeks every arsonist out of jail in Chicago has been shivering in his boots. Reason was a fat, squat little grandmother named Bertha Warshovsky who was comfortably seated in an armchair at the State Attorney's office telling her life story...
Ship News. The full title is New York Ship News Reporters Association. The organization's only function is to maintain headquarters in a long, squat building at the Battery, the noisy tip of Manhattan Island. The building, hard by the Customs House, is called the Barge Office. There a Western Union printer reports on every floating object that passes Quarantine, eight miles down New York Harbor from the Battery...
Egypt. Excavating the buried city of Karanis, University of Michigan archeologists laid bare a squat building composed of four apartments or cells. Groping through the murky interior they came upon vast clay jars and moldering cloth bags containing some 26,000 bronze coins of local manufacture. The diggers surmised that this was the ancient bank whose existence they had suspected since finding elsewhere in the ruins a papyrus recording what seemed to be bank transactions. All the coins were dated prior to 296 A.D. In that year Roman Emperor Diocletian banned local coinage to introduce a standard monetary unit...
Flat on the altar steps of the grey stone church at squat, dun-colored, little Caughnawaga, Quebec one day last fortnight lay Michael Jacobs, 32. When he arose an ordained Jesuit priest, pledged to missionary work among Indians around Caughnawaga, many a spectator felt that an old, old debt had been partly paid...
Shortly before 3 o'clock one afternoon last week, swart Inquisitor Ferdinand Pecora stepped into the corridor of Washington's squat, ramshackle Federal Trade Commission Building, marched into the office of Commissioner James M. Landis. The first meeting of the new Securities & Exchange Commission was about to be held, a chairman elected. In an office four doors down the corridor waited Commissioners Matthews, Healy and Kennedy. Thirty minutes passed and Mr. Pecora did not join his colleagues to start business. Every few minutes Mr. Landis would step out, glowering darkly, hurry down to the other office to whisper...