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...manufacturing-tenants who now occupy nearly half of the Mart's 3,100,000 square feet of floor space. Trim co-eds from the University of Chicago and Northwestern guided them from elevators to exhibits. For beer, buyers visited The Kooler, a refreshment room designed to resemble a jail. They looked at 6,000 lines of merchandise, from collar buttons to calculating machines. Special attraction was the Hall of Science, devoted to house-furnishings, electrical and otherwise. In a pre-show message sent to 5,000 house-furnishing buyers, the Hall was described as FORTY THOUSAND SQUARE FEET...
...demands the Stouts refused. After a shutdown, they reopened their mill, offered to rehire all onetime employes individually. The Labor Board's complaint cited the three Stouts for refusing to bow to the unionized majority in the mill, threatened them with a $5,000 fine, a year in jail, or both, for violations of the Labor...
...sentence passed. In addition to the loss of one eye. shot out by his brother-in-law. Barrett was crippled in the knees by a volley of slugs fired by the Government agents in the West College Corner affray. Ordering the prisoner to be hanged at the Marion County Jail next March, U. S. District Judge Robert C. Baltzell concluded: "May I add personally that I hope and pray that God will be merciful unto...
...July 1934 it looked as if the jig was up. His habit of kicking and biting policemen earned him another three months in jail, but M. Besson, still trusting in his parliamentary immunity, dismissed this scornfully...
OGPU Agents began last week a grand roundup and jailing of Moscow housewives who since the beginning of the buying boom have made a business of stocking up on every sort of household stuff. With screaming headlines in Moscow papers branding such housewives as "Speculators," the OGPU made its most spectacular raid of the week on an eight-family house in Bakunin Street, swept all housewives therein off to jail, left astonished husbands and children to return to find no dinner. With an air of uncovering the deepest-dyed skullduggery, the OGPU revealed that the eight women had possessed among...