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...that they had a list of men they were going to take and that every one of them would pay." Instantly local and state police guards were thrown around the homes of 40 rich Chicagoans, among them: Arthur Cutten, John D. Hertz. President Warren Wright of Calumet Baking Powder Co., Otto W. Lehman (former owner of The Fair department store). The names of the other 36 marked men were withheld by police. Politicians. Beer drenched and politics complicated another major kidnapping of the week. For four days the relatives of John J. ("Butch") O'Connell Jr. kept secret...
...explained, because Herr Scheidemann recently wrote an article for the New York Times in which he asked: "Will the world tolerate in the centre of Europe the domination of political adventurers and criminals who trample under foot law. right, art and science, and play with incendiary torches around a powder keg? No! A thousand times no! It must be the task of the entire civilized world to paralyze these adventurers. That this may not exclude a bloody war is self evident!" This last sentence the Nazi Press called a treasonable incitement to other nations to make war on Germany...
...morning last week Mr. Francis Breese Davis Jr. looked at the newspaper. In 1909 Mr. Davis was hired by the du Ponts as a civil engineer. Since then he has had one du Pont job after another: black powder, sporting powder, guncotton. smokeless powder, cellulose. General Motors, Pyroxylin, safety glass. Four years ago the du Ponts gave him the toughest job of all: made him president of U. S. Rubber just a few months before the crash. U. S. Rubber, the only great non-Akron rubber company, has had a hard row to hoe, even for a rubber company...
...came a sharp explosion. Father Coughlin was shaken out of bed, he said. Neighbors awoke, called police. Father Coughlin called his good friend Mayor Frank Murphy. Streets were roped off, the house surrounded by guards. In the basement, police found remains of a crude, small black-powder bomb. The explosion had wrecked a steam-pipe, broken windows, spattered canned goods about. Otherwise, no damage. Only clue was a long white cord by which the bomb had perhaps been lowered into the cellar...
...fourth night amid the drifting clutter of ice, the explorers were passing along an iceberg when another berg charged, passed, missing them by yards. The charging berg "ran up against the first berg with a heavy thud that would have squeezed us to powder. . . . We saw in the far distance the reflection of the moon on an iceberg to leeward...