Word: strangers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Justice John A. Ford of the New York Supreme Court leaped to escape a speedy motor truck in lower Manhattan. A fellow pedestrian had an even closer call. Breathing hard, steadying himself on the Justice's arm, the stranger gasped: "If that guy had knocked me down and sent me to the hospital, what could I do about...
Cried the stranger: "What good would that do me? With nothing but crooked lawyers and crooked judges on the bench, I'd have a fat chance to collect anything, I would...
...truck driver who likes detective fiction, saw a picture of the man accused of conducting the massacre of seven Chicago Moran gangsters on St. Valentine's day two years ago (TIME, Feb. 25, 1929). The man in the picture had a scarred lip and ruffy face. So did the stranger who lately married into the nearby Porter family, thought Joseph Hunsaker. The stranger seemed to have plenty of money, always in bills of large denominations. He never did any work, took long mysterious trips. Joseph Hunsaker took his suspicions to the Sullivan County sheriff. They proved correct...
...eccentric old gentleman who infests a most attractive old country house invites a casual stranger to spend the night. It turns out the old gentleman is a student of the occult; the stranger takes no stock in such truck, but before the night is over he changes his mind...
...Stranger things have happened in politics than for an attorney who has been cited for ambulance-chasing to become a Federal judge. But the Hoover Administration does not relish such strange things and Attorney General Mitchell, a well-informed member of the Minnesota bar, took strong exception to Senator Schall's proposal. Not even when Senator Schall obtained for Lawyer Michel the endorsement of all the Minnesota Republicans in Congress, did Attorney General Mitchell relent. Senator Schall declared he would have no other man. So last week the Attorney General, backed by his President, let the case go before...