Word: files
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Niles Center. There, wrapped in a blanket, they found a small, naked corpse. There were eight bullet wounds in its legs, one big one in its belly beneath a wad of bloody cotton. A downy mustache was on its upper lip and four finger tips had been scarred by file and acid. But by prints of the unscarred fingers police quickly assured themselves that the round, blank face, now horribly contorted, was that of "Baby Face" Nelson. In Cook County's morgue his body was stretched on the same rubber slab which had held John Dillinger just 130 days before...
Softspoken, friendly, unostentatious, L. & N.'s new president has long been known to railroad's rank & file as "Plain Jim." No kin of famed Empire Builder James Jerome Hill, he was born of poor Tennessee mountainfolk, learned railroad telegraphy at 13, won a $100 scholarship to George Peabody College for Teachers at 15 and graduated three years later as a licensed schoolteacher. He abandoned an academic career to take a $15-a-month job as relief station agent in a tiny town called Bon Air. One day he applied for a better job, was asked if he knew...
...George Landauer and Dr. Martin Rosenblueth announced that Palestine can absorb 40,000 German Jews a year if enough money is raised. On file are applications from 5,000 German families who wish to settle there during the next six months...
...twice been the choice of his party for the Presidency, and has also been the Socialist candidate for Mayor of the City of New York. Although never elected to public office, he probably commands greater respect from the rank and file of his party than any other defeated candidate for the Presidency alive today...
Segregated from the upperclassmen in respect to living and dining facilities and social contacts the Freshman have little opportunity to become acquainted with the House Plan. Late in the Spring they are asked to file applications for rooms in the Houses and to indicate which of these they would like to live in. No opportunity, however, is provided for them to make any kind of a satisfactory choice...