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...accused Judge James Herbert Wilkerson of allowing fees of $2,400,000 to receivers and attorneys of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul R. R.; of allowing receivership fees up to $60,000 per year to officers of Chicago Railways Co. (streetcar lines), thus doubling their salaries by paying them once as officers and again as receivers...
...head man" of the Moran & Mack team; when he was pinned under the overturned automobile in which he was riding with his wife, daughter, Partner Moran, and Mack Sennett, all of whom were slightly hurt; near Mesa, Ariz. Born in Kansas, he rose from newsboy to professional base-bailer, streetcar conductor, stage electrician. When comedians remembered and used his quips, he decided to use them himself, toured in vaudeville with a partner named Moran who died of pneumonia. He ran a trunk factory in Cleveland, returned to the stage with Comedian George Searcy who called himself Moran and was Mack...
...Tsarism but after that you will turn your back on us.'' Said bristling Pilsudski to a group of Socialists long after the World War from which Poland emerged free: "You accuse me of having betrayed Socialism. It is this way, gentlemen: We rode together in a streetcar marked Socialism, but I got off at the stop 'Independent Poland ' " Josef Pilsudski "got off" by desperate battling as commander of his Polish Legions who fought Imperial Russia during the World War, sometimes under their own ensign, sometimes as units-but always distinct units-in the hospitable armies...
...Attorney David A. Rose volunteered to defend one-armed Philip Copell, pleaded passionately, listened sadly as his client received a sentence of 2½-to 3 years for robbery. Philip Copell lost his arm 20 years ago when he, 12, pulled David Rose, 6, from the path of a streetcar...
...Shoot to kill!" was the staccato order to Berlin police last week to break a streetcar & bus strike which had given millions of Berliners healthy exercise for four days...