Word: hansen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. John Morrison Hansen, 56, Board Chairman of Standard Steel Car Co.; at La Rochelle, France; of apoplexy. In 1894 he designed the first steel freight...
...darkness. He controls a ray invention, by which he can not only see through distant men's brains but pulverize them as well. Hospitably, Picrolas offers Dograr a share in his ray-murders. Charmed, Dograr accepts. They aim the ray. Soon the city awakes to find Harry Hansen, William Soskin, Heywood Broun, Henry Seidl Canby, Asa Huddleberry and George Jean Nathan all dead. When the old man's hospitality becomes too exacting, Dograr leaves, preferring to have six Weber & Heilbroner shirts "in the Manhattan manner" at $4.40 each (advt.), and an Oriental dancer named Sweet Adeline...
...Copenhagen, a bread crust lodged in the throat of Mechanic Anders Hansen. He choked, strangled, took out his pocket knife, cut into his throat below the bulging crust, saved his life...
Last year William Larsen, a Department of Justice secret agent, changed his name, on orders from Washington, to Peter Hansen. As Hansen, he secured, in an as-yet-unexplained manner, papers from the U. S. District Court in Detroit, Mich., committing him to the Atlanta Penitentiary for a liquor law violation which he had not committed. Warden John W. Snook received him as any other prisoner...
Immediately "Convict Hansen" began to snoop on Warden Snook, to send out secret reports on the prison to Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Assistant Attorney General in charge of U. S. penal institutions (as well as of Prohibition prosecutions). Finally he was transferred to Leavenworth Penitentiary, and thence released on Mrs. Willebrandt's orders...