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...refused to appoint as his attorney a lawyer of the judge's choosing; 2) he granted excessive fees to Samuel Shortridge Jr. in a receivership later voided on appeal; 3) he appointed for Fageol Motor Co. a receiver whom he knew to be incompetent and unqualified; 4) he threw Prudential Holding Co. into receivership and appointed the same incompetent receiver "for the sole purpose of benefiting and enriching his personal friends and associates." A subsidiary accusation was that, to dodge a divorce suit in San Francisco, he established a fictitious residence in another county while continuing to live...
...Lynch him!" cried angry voices in the crowd around Joe Zangara. The police yanked him to a waiting car into which some of his victims were being loaded. They shoved him onto the trunk rack, mounted guard on the bumpers. The car jerked forward. Joe Zangara fell off. Police threw him back on, held him down...
...pound class: H. B. Stoddard threw Kinne (A). Time...
Under the Lausanne Pacts (unratified) Germany is due to pay the Allies $700,000,000. This, plus $400,000,000 owed by France on her purchase of U. S. War stocks, totals $1,100,000.000. Last week London financiers threw in another $400,000,000 for good measure, took the grand total $1,500.000,000 as their "lump sum." The U. S. they opined (and in some cases wagered) will not collect more than that from all the Allied Powers. Any Anglo-U. S. settlement, they thought, will have to be made provisional until France comes to debt terms with...
...last, inglorious attempt to gain the transient rays of public favor of a certain type, he threw aside his habit of bagging cats for a neighboring Medical School, and took up politics. When however, both the city editor of the Boston Post, and the managing editor of the Boston Globe refused to exonerate him publicly from leading the movement to "Buy American" he was compelled by the pressure of academic engagements o give up his career, and forfeit his life for the benefit of this creators...