Word: thereon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Judge Julian W. Mack called the twelve jurors to him, explained to them the law and the charges, told them to start deliberating. That night they called for a section of the exhibits (evidence); pondered thereon; went to their rooms at the Hotel McAlpin, Manhattan. All the next day at the federal building they tried to reach a decision, failed. Judge Mack told them to try again. More nights in locked hotel rooms, more days in a stuffy juryroom with peekers looking through the windows . . . blasphemy, threats . . stubborn Juror No. 9 . . . sick Juror No. 6 who had been shell-shocked...
...President sent a message to the House requesting more money for prohibition enforcement. (See PROHIBITION.) ¶ Banners-and thereon inscriptions: "Yes, we too want to eat; our mothers work nights, our fathers days, who cares for us?" "That 10% wage cut took our milk away," "The truth is on our side," "Come to Passaic and see how we live"-fluttered about the paths of the White House. Three men, two women, six little children from Passaic, N. J., strike scenes carried them. But Everett Sanders, Presidential secretary, gently waved them away, informing the picketers that the President had a slight...
...star plays a worthy young man who becomes a pirate to avenge his father, murdered by other pirates. Vanquishing the leader of the wicked crew, he assumes command and takes the next prize singlehanded. Thereon he finds a lovely girl (Billie Dove). Subsequently he humanizes the pirates...
...church will go up on land which John D. Rockefeller Jr. now owns. An apartment thereon will be torn down when tenants' leases expire next October. Meanwhile the architects, Allen & Collens of Boston and Henry C. Pelton of Manhattan, who have had ten draftsmen working for two months, will work for six more months on the details.? The building will be of gray stone, probably of Indiana limestone, over a steel skeleton. It will cover practically all of the 22,500 feet of land (225 feet on Riverside Drive, 100 feet on W. 122nd St.) Its nave, 100 feet wide...
...part of any individual directly or indirectly connected with the movement of such craft might have avoided such loss. In this sense, and in this sense only, can allegations of direct or indirect individual responsibility for the loss of the Shenandoah and the loss of life consequent thereon be supported...