Word: teamsters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Teamster in Marble
...Berlin. On the UFA lot he met a little blonde girl named Erika Patzek, born a Pole and a Catholic, who loved to dance and drive fast in her own orange-colored sport roadster. Her father had done very well in post-War Berlin. Starting as a boss teamster, he had specialized in hauling garbage, eventually opened several produce markets in Berlin suburbs and speculated in real estate. He invited Sigvard to his hunting preserve in Mecklenburg, to his country house on Lake Stechlin outside Berlin...
Chicago's first major trade racket mur der occurred on the warm afternoon of Aug. 3, 1926 when Morris Markowitz, one time Russian pushcart peddler who be came an independent teamster but refused to join a ruthless teamsters' union, was shot down at 37th & Princeton Streets. Since then no less than 274 business rackets have been uncovered, varying from bootblacks, fish dealers and candy jobbers to garagemen, glaziers and electricians...
...Comstock Lode on the side of Mt. Davidson at Virginia City, Nev., has always been a surprise package. Discovered in 1859, its glory holes enriched Sandy Bowers, an illiterate Missouri teamster, made his washerwoman bride, Eilly Orrum. Queen of the Comstock. Its abandoned workings, bought in 1872 for $100,000, in four years yielded $100,000,000 to its four new owners-Irishmen William S. O'Brien, James C. Flood, James G. Fair and John W. Mackay-father of Postal Telegraph's Clarence Mackay. In 1907 a fall of rock disclosed a $1,000,000 pocket of gold...
...abdomen by a bullet aimed by Assassin Joe Zangara at President-elect Roosevelt (TIME, Feb. 27). Born in Bohemia, Cermak was taken to the U. S. when one year old. He drove a mule in Illinois coal mines before he was 12. In Chicago he started as a teamster, built up his own trucking company, expanded into real estate and politics. A favorite candidate around the stockyards, he rose to be President of the Cook County Commissioners. His defeat of Republican William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson for Mayor in 1931 made him Democratic boss of Chicago. Last year...