Word: throned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Immune") Torrio?who brought Snorkey from New York to Chicago eleven years ago, was later scared out of town by rival guns?would come back from Florida to succeed his onetime protege. Gangster Torrio has been erroneously reported as hiding in Italy. His pretensions to the Chicago gangland throne will probably not go unchallenged. Hardly had the Capone pleas been entered last week before two gunmen were shot down in a reawakened feud between the South Side gangs of Frank McErlane and Edward ("Spike") O'Donnell. Attorney Johnson said that the Government also had plans in the event of Torrio...
...does not matter, Mahatma," said she, "but accept, Great Soul, this silver throne and this silver footstool...
...step, from the Egyptian people and their elected representatives. When the anti-British and popular Wafd party won the last election by a majority of 19 to 1 over all opponents combined (TIME, Jan. 13, 1930), it became clear that if King Fuad was to remain on his throne and remain a British puppet the next election would have to be a fraud. Last week Premier Ismail Sidky Pasha, creature of the King, was busy perpetrating this fraud...
Egyptians went to the polls to elect 150 members of Parliament. Instead of winning 19 to 1 as it did last year, the Wafd lost last week 1 to 17 according to the Government's official count. The same authority gave parties adherent to the throne a victory of 4 to 1 over all opponents combined...
...himself a great monument, the Woolworth building, internationally hailed as a "Cathedral of Commerce." On the 24th floor he placed the company's offices. His private office represented a $35,000 departure from frugality. It was a careful duplicate of Napoleon's library, even to the three throne chairs. Looking down from the wall was a large portrait of the stern-mouthed Emperor. When in 1919 Mr. Woolworth was on his deathbed, he was pleased to know that there was a capable man to succeed him: Hubert Templeton Parson, with the company since 1892. And he would have...