Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chicago many gangsters, known to be heavy speculators, received margin calls, left brokers' offices muttering threats. Dynamite was thrown into the home of one Charles H. McCarthy, manager of a brokerage Credit department. Stench bombs were tossed into the offices of Hornblower & Weeks, E. A. Pierce & Co., Logan & Bryan. "A new form of wolf has invaded La Salle Street," said the deputy police commissioner, ". . . The racketeer who responds with a bomb when he is called for more margin...
...Spanish regime. Then in 1925 it was restored to use by the suave but ruthlessly dictating Cuban who is still President, His Excellency General Gerardo Machadoy Morales. Though of mild appearance and a wearer of business-like tortoise-shell spectacles General Machadoy has been accused of having political enemies thrown to sharks (TIME, March n). His revival of garroting was significant...
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...Amherst President, began an "experimental" college. His freshmen were to study only Periclean culture, his sophomores U. S. history, sociology. From the experimental college they were to enter the University's junior class (TIME, June 18. Sept. 10, 1928). This year the first batch of experiments will be thrown in with the general run of undergraduates. President Glenn Frank, Dr. Meiklejohn's great & good friend, who sponsored the experimental college, will soon have proof of his pet pedagogical pudding...
...Eddyville, Ky., Carl Hord, 27, murderer of a grocer, sat in an electric chair. When the switch was thrown, 2,000 volts went through his body. Murderer Hord slumped, then straightened up. "Boys," he remarked, "I'm not dead...