Word: withdrawals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...morning he took Wood to San Francisco, registered with him at an apartment hotel as father and son. When Meek went out during the day he bound his victim with wire, taped his mouth, muffled his head in a hood. He made Wood cook their meals, forced him to withdraw $200 from his bank, beat him when he was unable to get more...
After four days. Meek marched his prisoner out to the bank, forced him to withdraw $10,000. Afterwards they went into a gun shop, where Meek made Wood buy a new revolver. Returning to the apartment, they passed through crowded, bustling Crystal Palace Market. Meek decided he wanted to eat some walnuts, went with his prisoner into a shop to buy them. When he stepped up to the counter. Wood spied a policeman. Suddenly nerved, he cried: "Look out, that man has a gun!" and started to run. Meek wheeled around, fatally wounded the policeman in the chest, then backed...
...There is no existing legal authority for any modification of the contract because of the operation of the National Recovery Act. . . . The contract constitutes an obligation binding on the company and it may not withdraw therefrom without resulting liability to the U.S. for excess costs. . . . You are advised that there is no legal authority now existing to use appropriated public money to pay another price than the price fixed by the contract...
Sheriff of Fayette County is Harry Hackney who, to hold his job, must stand in well with the mine operators. When Fayette disorders reached the front page. Governor Pinchot proposed to Sheriff Hackney the same remedy he successfully used week before in the Lansdale hosiery strike: let the sheriff withdraw his deputies and turn their job over to the State police. Sheriff Hackney refused, whereupon Governor Pinchot marched his soldiers into the county. Said he: "The miners have the right to organize, to picket peacefully and to assemble in meetings. . . . The mine operators have a right to protection of their...
...thanks to brighter rails Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific was able to withdraw its application for an R. F. C. loan. Pennsylvania paid back to the R. F. C. the last of the $28,900,000 it borrowed to further its electrification program and work-making car repairs. All this confirmed in large measure what old railroaders maintained throughout the Depression: that all the railroads needed was a little more traffic. Other rail news of the week...