Word: coll
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Argonaut, Park Avenue. Silver Slipper); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. As a Hudson Duster, Big Frenchy early opposed British-born Owen ("Owney") Madden's Gophers, later joined Owney in the liquor racket. In 1931 Owney scraped up $35,000 to ransom Big Frenchy when itchy-fingered Vincent Coll kidnapped him and threatened his life. Last week Owney was chief mourner at Big Frenchy's funeral, complete with six cars dripping with flowers...
Maurice first went to the Collège Stanislas, a strict and scholarly Catholic school with considerable social standing and a military flavor. One of his teachers was Mgr. Henri Marie Alfred Baudrillart, now Cardinal Baudrillart, who still remains one of General Gamelin's best friends. At Stanislas, methodical Maurice further disciplined his mind by memorizing ten lines of prose at night (because it was harder than poetry) and reading a book of philosophy a week. After Stanislas he entered St. Cyr, French West Point, where in 1893 he finished first in a class...
Davenport Coll. (Yale) 24, Adams...
...Vincent Coll, the "baby killer" whose careless slugs were suspected when a rampaging Manhattan machine gun ripped into a four-year-old boy asleep in his carriage, cried to Liebowitz and Liebowitz got him off. Vera Stretz shot her German lover, Dr. Fritz Gebhardt, dead. Liebowitz saved her. Violinist Mischa Rosenbaum, last April murdered his pupil and mistress, Julia Nussenbaum, in a drunken orgy, slobbered to Liebowitz. The County believed Liebowitz' boast that they could never get a first-degree conviction, accepted a guilty plea of second-degree murder...
...vice cleanup. He was defeated by some 60,000 votes. Such causes as the Scottsboro trials, if of no elective advantage, may crown the Liebowitz career with a judgeship. As for the clients his talents have freed, not all have lived to praise him. Liebowitz sent "Mad Dog" Coll back into the streets. Brother gangsters wiped him out within a week. Convict Max Becker, missing the electric chair for the prison guard's murder, went back to face prison guards who did not forget. The electric chair burns men. Solitary confinement burns minds. Max Becker has for some years...