Word: als
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...oppose Mr. Thompson for the Republican nomination, respectable citizens drafted Dwight H. Green, former U. S. District Attorney who put Gangster "Scarface Al" Capone behind bars...
...Chicago, District Attorney William J. Campbell reported that Al Capone, due to be released from Alcatraz Island Penitentiary next month, was suffering from paresis, was out of his head one week in four. Meanwhile Convict Capone was presented with a bill for $57,692.29 from the U. S. Government. The bill was for: 1) a $50,000 fine, 2) $7,692.29 court costs of his income-tax evasion case...
...wore himself out as Harding's Secretary of Agriculture in jurisdictional disputes with Herbert Hoover's Department of Commerce. He left his son with a distrust of politics and a dislike of Herbert Hoover so strong that in 1928 Henry III deserted his traditional Republicanism to support Al Smith...
...ideas in question direct from Philosopher Wallace. Candidate Roosevelt took advice on the farm problem from others who shared the Wallace idea that farmers needed something more than price rigging. Among them was Professor Rexford Guy Tugwell of Columbia University, who in 1928 had tried to sell Al Smith a farm program which that salty sidewalk philosopher somehow couldn't swallow. Among them was red-faced, downright George Peek, who had grown interested in export subsidies while he and his partner Hugh Johnson were trying to sell Moline plows. One piece of advice that seemed to crop up wherever...
...cooperative was formed with the aid of Radcliffe girls. The original idea is attributed to Sarah Cauman, Radcliffe '39. "We had hoped that the joint organization, if successful, would set a precedent for harmonious Harvard Radcliffe relations," Miss Leigh Steinhardt, Radcliffe 2G, declared. "After al, the chances of anything happening are every slight. We will behave ourselves...