Word: taverners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whole Bicentennial staff, which celebrated the completion of the project by drinking toasts and eating roast beef at New York City's pre-Revolutionary Fraunces Tavern, this issue has been partly an exercise in historical imagination and partly an inspiration. As an introduction to the special issue puts it, "At a time when Americans are questioning the very meaning of their nation's basic beliefs, it is refreshing and reassuring to return to our origins, to our fundamental values, and to try to illuminate how earlier Americans saw the world and their place...
...Quaker meeting, a member is expected to speak only when he feels "moved"), and his speech was so exalted that the congregation declared he should speak in other places to spread the Quaker word. He did. But he continued to make his living as a painter of tavern signs, carriage decorations and furniture. In 1825, when he was 45, his faith and his painting skills found common ground. He would paint his (and the Quaker) vision of the Peaceable Kingdom. In this vision, Quaker Leader William Perm became the epitome of the peacemaker, specifically in his act of making...
...notice, however, that his friends--who he always felt were more in the know than he--regarded him with a new air of respect. When he would scrape together enough pennies for a quick visit to his local tavern, he would walk in and hear people whispering quietly almost reverentially, about how the United States needed more people like Walter Ripperton to pull itself out of the recession...
...racketeers, which carries a 20-year maximum sentence. Big Jim turned the statute into a particularly potent law-enforcement weapon in a major 1973 case in the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. Previously, prosecutors had expended considerable effort proving, say, that a policeman who had extorted payments from a tavern owner had used fear of violence or harassment to force his victim to pay. The appeals court bought Thompson's argument that the law did not deal only with fear of physical harm, but could be interpreted as covering threatened economic damage as well. Another decision held that merely...
Mosiello is serving a mandatory life sentence for the felony murder of a Weehawken waterfront tavern owner whom police found gagged, trussed and stuffed in the trunk of a '69 Cadillac. "It was obviously a professional job, a contract hit," claims the soft-spoken Mosiello, who had no previous arrests. "I did not do it." But the state said he did, a jury agreed, and Mosiello, the owner of a successful racing-engine design shop, had to begin a new career behind a 20-ft. wall in Trenton...