Word: vacant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vacant house near Haverford, Pa., Frank A. McClatchy, rich real estate broker, took two men who said they wanted to buy a home. The minute they stepped inside the "customers" seized Broker McClatchy, bent his arms behind his back, shouted: "You're kidnapped!" McClatchy flung them off, punched one in the jaw, the other in the stomach. "Give him the works!" cried one of the snatchers, and a pistol bullet pierced McClatchy's chest, buried itself in his belly. The kidnappers fled. McClatchy died four days later in a Philadelphia hospital...
...speech changed the whole atmosphere of Australia. Roaring with rage, the Commonwealth's high-blood-pressured politicians forgot their local strife last week in attacking Dean Johnson's "outburst of ignorance." Cried Premier Forgan Smith of the Australian State of Queensland which adjoins the vast and almost vacant Northern Territory: "As a means of smashing the British Commonwealth of Nations no more effective scheme could be devised...
Allotment of the overflow might be made on an equal basis to the dining halls and libraries of each of the Houses. In view of the fact that so many expensive suites will be vacant in each House, the dining arrangements should be equal to the emergency. To obviate the criticism that House members might be paying for privileges enjoyed by outsiders, a fee of ten dollars could be charged for the use of a House library. Clearly the situation must be avoided in the future through more cautious admission and downward revisions in rental scales, but these expedients would...
Democrats all. The three empty chairs were silent reminders of the fact that President Roosevelt had not yet gotten around to filling three Republican directorships. The business before the board was the election of a chairman, a post vacant since March 4 when bald, bumbling Atlee Pomerene, Hoover appointee, was forced out by the Senate's refusal to confirm his nomination. Together went the Woodin, Couch and McCarthy heads. When they came apart Jesse Jones, Houston publisher, realtor, banker, lumberman and promoter, found himself unanimously elected R. F. C. chairman. Chairman Jones has been...
...drove up to the vast old cupolaed Belmont mansion. On its spacious veranda he was surprised to find several revenue agents, reading old magazines, in possession of the premises. "I'm the receiver," announced Mr. Duffy. "Well," said the agents, "look what you received." Inside the spacious house, vacant for years but well cared for, Mr. Duffy was dazzled to behold the burnished copper and carefully painted ironwork of a 5,000-gal. alcohol still, capable of filling a battery of 19-bbl. vats daily. Downstairs was a 5,000-gal. molasses vat. Throughout the house, parquet flooring...