Word: curbs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...curb on coallegging by making "anyone who knowingly purchases coal sold in violation of the act . . . equally guilty with the seller...
...avowed purpose of the investigation, "to determine whether or not the latter (tutoring schools) have grown out of their natural proportion and whether any effort should be made to curb their activities," is an admission in itself that Harvard officials have good reason to believe that the university courses are far from benefiting from the tutorial establishments...
...offices were constantly annoyed by attempts to bribe printers, statisticians, copy boys. Even now an occasional ignoramus who thinks the Press knows everything in advance will approach a financial editor with promises of a split on the contemplated killing. One of the few successful numbers frauds occurred in the Curb's stock sales total. A person who looked like a regular Curb employe marched calmly in to the waiting newsmen, posted faked figures. The newsmen dashed out to report the total before the real one was released. When out-of-town numbers bankers were more innocent, New York racketeers...
...last trial, Boss Bruno has been confined in Pottsville's county jail, awaiting removal to Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia. One morning last week he asked to be permitted to visit a dentist, was motored downtown by a guard named Guy Irving. Finding the dentist's curb occupied, amiable Guard Irving said he told the murderer to go into the office alone, drove on to park his car. When he returned, Boss Bruno was gone. Four hours passed before he reported the escape to the jail warden. Guard Irving explained that he had been searching Pottsville...
...Council, which traditionally acts in concert with University Hall, solemnly took heed of an old and flourishing institution for the first time by appointing a four-man committee "to determine whether the tutoring schools have grown out of their natural proportion and whether any effort should be made to curb their activities...