Word: wiping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Except as a huge source of criminal funds and as a possible lead to some su-per-boss like Luciano, Prosecutor Dewey was no more interested in policy gambling than he had been in prostitution. But though he never expected to wipe out prostitution, he did announce that he might abolish policy in the only way it ever could be abolished-by showing betters what a "crooked gyp racket...
...broken ankle, did what she could for her passengers, all but two of whom were severely injured, one dead. Martin Johnson, with both jaws broken, skull cracked, a shattered hip and internal wounds, became hysterical with pain. Osa, with leg broken and a concussion, was able only to wipe his face. Rescuers struggling up the mountain heard his screams afar. The plane was almost intact, with one motor torn loose. Nearby was a small fire lookout station. There for nearly ten hours the injured lay before they could be carried down the precipitous slope. Next morning Martin Johnson died...
...Socialite Alec Hutchinson and Max Epstein, Chicago tank car tycoon who chairmanned the Wartime Draft Board. "Yellow fever." observed adventuring Dr. Heiser. "has been largely driven back into Africa. . . . One infected person or one infected mosquito carried to Europe or India by plane could start an epidemic that would wipe out millions. It would probably be the greatest disaster in the history of the world...
...either or both of two ways: 1) as a vote of confidence in John Hamilton; 2) as proof that no one else wanted his job. That job is not merely to reorganize a shattered Party. It is also, as Treasurer Charles B. ("Barney") Goodspeed explained last week, to wipe out a campaign deficit of $901,501.61, owing mostly for billboard and radio advertising. Chairman Hamilton, reported Treasurer Goodspeed. spent $67,000 less than the budgeted $6,300,000. But the Committee's receipts, like its candidate's votes, had fallen far short of its hopes...
...swings of the arm and huge, rhythmic rockings of her body from the heels up, Conductor Sundstrom carried chorus and orchestra through excerpts from Wagner's Tannhauser, Elgar's King Olaf, Grieg's Olaf Tryggvason. Heated, enthusiastic, she swung next into a Schumann symphony, had to wipe her perspiring brow after the first movement. She had picked up enough energy in her European trip to satisfy everybody and to make Daily News Critic Eugene Stinson find the orchestra "well nigh unrecognizable, so firmly has Ebba Sundstrom increased her grasp over her players since last spring...