Word: upping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"Congress must be obeyed," declared Justice McReynolds in rendering the majority opinion from which dissented Justices Holmes, Brandeis and Stone. Justice Butler, as a onetime railroad attorney, did not participate in the case. The Court's ruling set at naught the valuation placed by the I. C. C. on...
For a week Capone, with his ever present bodyguard, Frank ("Slippery") Cline, had been teasing Atlantic City police officials with his presence in that resort. He prepared to return to Chicago, motored to Philadelphia, missed the Broadway Limited, made a reservation on the Manhattan Limited. With two hours to kill...
The next morning Capone faced the detective line-up at 9:30 a. m., was indicted by the Grand Jury at 10:25 a. m. for carrying concealed weapons, went on trial at 11:30 a. m., pleaded guilty (with Cline) at 12:15 p. m., started a year'...
To operate the mills, the managers scoured the East Tennessee mountain country for strikebreakers whom they drove to the plants in busses and trucks under armed guards. The strikers, many of them also back-countrymen, attempted to block the highways, break up the convoys. Trees were felled across the road...
Pulmotors were carried into the building from the roof and applied to the victims as headway was made into the smoke-filled rooms. A few of those revived were able to walk to ladders and descend. The great majority were carried out. The lawns adjoining were littered with the bodies...