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...this point that Governor Quinn, declaring that he would rid Rhode Island of a "vicious influence." swore out the dramatically-served warrant for Mr. O'Hara's arrest. Released on $5,000 bail supplied by Mayor McCoy, he was immediately rearrested on another warrant sworn out by Adman William E. Beehan whom he had called in the Star-Tribune a briber, released on similar bail from the same source. Next day he was back at his office for the running of the $25,000 Narragansett Special, which he had threatened to open to the public free, with...
...Asiatic cholera. In 1849, polluted drinking water brought it to Pittsburgh where in two or three weeks it killed some 5,000 of the city's 45,000 inhabitants. Business activities ceased, citizens barred themselves indoors, while carts rumbled off with the dead, and hydrants gushed to rid the town of its foulness. Among the devout who tolled their church bells and prayed for deliverance were the Catholics of St. Michael's parish on the South Side, who addressed their supplications to St. Roch and the Blessed Virgin, vowing that if they were spared they would devote...
When Soviet machinations in revolution-torn Sinkiang province brought an order to get rid of all "questionable" foreigners, the roundup produced seven individuals as mysterious as Serafimov, who traveled together until further machinations caused a further splitting up of their ranks. Serafimov's victim was a fastidious, ratlike Belgian named Goupillière. A murderer himself, Goupillière's face was "as subtle as a woman's, as ambiguous as a thief's," since it was divided by an ugly scar left when a mistress had tried to kill him with a pair of scissors...
Borah: I say the Congress of the U. S. could not get rid of nine insane men except through the power of impeachment. That's what was done in the days when the Constitution was observed...
...Grover Whalen and Jimmy Walker, models of sartorial perfection though both were, had little in common. Whalen was an ambitious man but he had none of the Walker flair, and after two years Walker was glad to get rid of him. Since then Grover Whalen's talents have been devoted to private business and movements for civic improvement, chief of which was heading NRA's headquarters in Manhattan. Last year, he got an even bigger job: head promoter for New York City's World's Fair of 1939. Once more his tailored form was produced...