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...failed to affect the price. Declared Dealer James E. Bennett of Chicago : "This is the greatest hedging market in the world and we gladly receive orders from Canada, Russia or any other country. So-called farm relief is hopelessly ineffective and it looks like somebody is looking for an alibi. Of course we must have something to wipe our feet on and Russia makes a good doormat...
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...with the suitcase two hours after the explosion. The hearing unexpectedly broadened out when Miss Estelle Smith, onetime dental nurse, drug addict and witness against Billings at his trial, revised her testimony, charged that Prosecutor Fickert had pressed her into perjury. Incidentally she set up an alibi for Billings by declaring he was in her office, a mile from the explosion scene, just a few minutes before the bomb went off. She swore he carried a suitcase in which was, not bombs, but a supply of acid which Billings was squirting on automobile engines as part of a garage mechanics...
...were released. The Tribune roared that a certain gunman would soon be apprehended. Into the Detective Bureau marched Sam Hunt, one of the Capone ''mob," with a onetime city alderman, his lawyer. Smiling, he showed news reporters he was not left-handed (the glove clue), established an alibi, marched out. Chief Detective Stege announced the qualifications of his six search-squad leaders in terms of their crook-shooting records: "Lieut. Frank Reynolds, who has killed 11; Lieut. Al Booth, who has killed...
Stalin and Hoover. If U. S. businessmen should refuse to sell Red Russia what she wants, gladly would British, German or even Japanese businessmen fill her orders. Christian, capitalist and patriot though he may be, the U. S. businessman has this perfect alibi far his traffic with the Reds...