Word: ringe
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...national honor. Then, with deliberate gait, gumshoeing Deputy Jordan Velasco strode forward, lifted his eyes to the balconies, bellowed out: "I am proud of being an accuser. And, without wishing to compare myself with Zola, I accuse." Defendant Diez was on trial for selling out to an illegal passport ring peddling to Jewish refugees...
...bedlam of chest-pounding patriotism, Accuser Velasco and his colleagues began backtracking Diez's trail. It began, they said, in the Gran Hotel Paris, where police seized documents belonging to the ring's La Paz agents. There they found a check for $7,500 in Diez's favor, a slip of paper reading: "Dear Ed: Here goes the first payment; others follow...
...spoor led the investigators across the Atlantic, where, they said, more agents had received over 1,000 blank immigration permits for distribution in Warsaw, Hamburg, Genoa and Paris. These sold from $145 to $2,000. All told, one Deputy charged, the ring's total receipts had reached $50,000,000 for 15,000 Jews admitted to Bolivia...
This week, when Santa Anita and Golden Gate ring up the curtain on California's winter racing season, every stall will be filled. Santa Anita's purses will be larger (averaging $20,000 a day), will therefore attract more high-grade horses. But an increasing number of California turfmen complain that Santa Anita has snubbed their homebreds to make room for big-name Eastern stables. For them, Golden Gate will be a horseman's heaven...
...francis" with an eraser because she laughed at the way he spelled Philadelphia. When the truant officers found him, ten days later, he was sent to reform school. There he met an Irish kid named Frankie Madden, leader of the Itch Mob. Madden wised him up to the prize ring, persuaded him to become a fighter, let him pose as his kid brother. In 1917, after 131 fights. Battling Joe Madden quit the ring...