Word: wrecker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...machines from the office and $30,000 worth of machinery from the plant, they proceeded on Mr. Rockwood's orders to tear down a three-car garage, a brick mill, a woodcutting shed 100 ft. by 30 ft. From the Steven plant, which had been closed since 1933, Wrecker Rockwood's men took, among other things, a 15-ton derrick, two electric hoists worth $4,500. Mr. Rockwood, explained Prosecutor Thompson, had disposed of his huge swag chiefly to local junk yards by means of forged bills of sale. Most puzzling problem he left in his wake...
Sentencing Wrecker Rockwood to one-to-ten years in the Joliet penitentiary, Judge Cornelius Harrington held up his hands in horror when Mr. Rockwood asked to be released on bond to wind up his affairs. Snapped the judge: "I should say not. I want to be sure this building will be here when I come back...
...townsman. No one may be nominated except at a meeting, the minutes of which must be signed by all the presiding officers and who will put his name to a paper which the Secret Police, after the election, could construe as evidence of a plot to nominate a "wrecker"? Latest dispatches indicated that nominating procedure, although the election is to be by secret ballot, has generally thus far been at open sessions with Communists present, vigilant to see and report who moves to nominate whom and what reasons are given by each participant. Finally the Electoral Law sets...
...Wrecker-whether Arab or Jew-is done!" he proclaimed, drawing cries of, "But Jews are not employing violence in Palestine...
...more friends than enemies. As in the Presidential campaign last year, the workers began to suspect that if a man was so hated by Capital he must have considerable to offer to Labor. Privately and publicly damned as a communist, an alien agitator, a ruthless doctrinaire, an unscrupulous wrecker with a lust for power, Harry Bridges has become, in three years, the bogey man of the Pacific...