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...about on the floors are pottery household utensils, the remains of food in pots, clay fire-dogs on hearths, flint knives. Red paintings still decorate the walls. Dr. Herzfeld figures that the village flourished 4000 B. C. Just four years before and not many miles away, according to Holy Writ, God created Adam...
WALLACE (Edgar) Writ in Barracks...
Large creditors centered some hopes last week on a writ served in Stockholm on Ernst Kreuger, the 80-year-old father of Scoundrel Ivar, and other directors of his collapsed holding company, Kreuger & Toll. The writ charges Father Kreuger & Directors with "gross negligence," accuses them of letting Scoundrel Ivar do with the company whatever he liked, seeks to collect from the Board of Directors damages equivalent to the losses of Kreuger & Toll. How great these losses are, accountants who have been ferreting & figuring ever since last spring were still unable to say last week...
...minutes a writ of habeas corpus, pleading the statute of limitations on his conviction for income tax law violations in 1025. 1926, 1927, got Federal Prisoner Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone out of jail. Then he was clapped back into Atlanta Penitentiary, with a hearing on the writ...
While the crew hissed and glared, the English agent fixed his Admiralty writ to the Artiglio II's mast. Later he transferred the writ to the ship's hold where the sacks of gold were stored...