Word: swaps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sent notorious Terry Druggan and Frankie Lake to jail. Last summer he capped a long and successful record of imprisoning gangsters when he refused to countenance a "deal" between Scarface Capone himself, his Federal prosecutor and the U. S. Attorney General's office whereby Capone was to swap a plea of guilty to income tax evasion for a light sentence. When the prosecutor came to court with this proposal. Judge Wilkerson indignantly quashed it (TIME, Aug. 10). Brought to trial, "Snorkey" Capone received an eleven-year penitentiary term and a $50,000 fine (TIME. Oct. 26). He still languishes...
Last week Capt. Baker's friends persuaded the Nationalist government to take a strange step. Instead of paying more Baker ransoms, the Chinese Government agreed to try some kidnapping too. Yangtze naval patrols were ordered to raid Kienli villages, kidnap likely bandits in the hope of effecting a swap...
...Chicago World's Fair (1893), stocky little George Armsby, 17, scorned college, went to work for his father's big Chicago firm, J. K. Armsby Co., distributors of California products. The next year he became a salesman, traveled through the Midwest and Southwest. Agreeable, talkative, able to swap a good yarn, he convinced buyers that they should purchase his father's peaches and prunes. Most of his life since then has been spent convincing...
...Swap? Behind closed doors in Cleveland last week convened the Railway Labor Executives Association. Present were the officials of 21 unions. They were the spokesmen for 1,250,000 men who work on U. S. railways, earn $2,250,000,000 a year. Bulwarks of the association, though numerically far in the minority, are the Big Four Brotherhoods: firemen & enginemen, trainmen, conductors, engineers, to the number of 310,000. President of the firemen & enginemen's brotherhood is David Brown Robertson, who started railroading as an engine wiper on the Pennsylvania. He is also chairman of the executives' association, is therefore...
...that a voluntary agreement might be reached in Chicago. The roads apparently would be satisfied with a 10% cut which would save them $200,000,000 per year in wages. It was reported in Cleveland that the unions might well agree to it, or at the most try to swap reductions for a 6-hour day and 5-day week...