Word: weigand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some 120 correspondents and photographers who originally beseiged Addis Ababa for news only a scant dozen had not left by last week. Gone were Karl von Weigand, Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker and Evelyn Waugh. The Ethiopians had cheated the pants off the correspondents as individuals and collectively mulcted the world's news and newsreel services to an extent which makes Ethiopia journalism's worst investment of all time...
Score--Adams 3, Lowell 2. Cobb (A) defeated Weigand (L), 3-0; Hadley (A) defeated Rockwell (L), 2-0; Shapiro (L) defeated Hutchinson (A), 3-2; Tillinghast (L) defeated Hill (A), 3-2; and Rosenfeld (A) defeated Wood...
August Gobel, stoker, and Adolph Weigand. policeman, sat in the boiler room of the Christian Feigenspan ice plant at Newark, N. J. late one night last week. August Gobel knew policemen and liked them. He had spent several weeks in jail, not because he had done anything wrong but because it was safer for him. He was a man of 47 with a wife and children. He and Policeman Weigand sat on a bench in front of the coal pile. From time to time Gobel banged open his fire door and a bloody glow would spread over the coal...
...gang were dead now, too. A fellow named Weissman out in Kansas City. Another in Philadelphia. Another in Atlantic City. So now some men come to the ice' plant last Tuesday looking for him, Gobel. He was the State's star witness to the first murder. So Policeman Weigand had been sent there with his big blue revolver to keep Gobel safe...
...boiler. It made a great deal of noise. It was 3:40 (he was off at 6) when Gobel went out in the yard for his next look around. It was his last one. This time there was noise in the boiler room but not from the shovel. Weigand scrambled over the coal pile. A slug shattered his right arm. He dropped his gun on the coal. He picked it up with his left hand. Outside he thought he saw some figures running. He fired at them. Then he fell down, shot in the hip. He got up again. Another...