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...sidewalk directing two plumbers in a basement. And Walter Stevens, whom police called the "Dean of Chicago gunmen," died at the age of 70 from pneumonia. It might have been a dull period for the nation's crime reporters had not the scene of gangland's Armageddon shifted 973 mi. eastward to the sidewalks of New York. At the end of the week these violent and criminal happenings were recorded: ¶Early one morning the body of Frank Marco, alias Callahan, gunman, hijacker, was found in a midtown gutter. He was suspected of killing Tony Lombardo, one-time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In New York | 3/2/1931 | See Source »

JOURNEY'S END?Anglicans at Armageddon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMING,GOING | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...slogan and it wins the prize." In 1840, men were shouting in the torchlit streets: "Fifty-four-forty or fight!" In 1856, Republicans punned: "Free soil, free speech, free men and Fremont." A resounding, if somewhat vague, slogan was Theodore Roosevelt's cry in 1912: "We stand at Armageddon and fight for the Lord." This was far less successful than the gluttonous Republican shout of 1896: "McKinley and the full dinner pail!" And the 1916 Wilson motto: "He kept us out of war!" One of the most successful slogans of all time was Warren G. Harding's "Back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Slogans | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

...English, but American. Mr. Russell's beliefs hold; however, for the rest of the United States, which are still unconsciously guilty of this crime against international good will. In the mean time there will probably be few who see in a similarity of tongues the seeds of an approaching Armageddon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TONGUE-TIED | 11/18/1927 | See Source »

...Strikers and Scabs" in the Victory Playground. This gentle pastime requires baseball bats, assorted clubs, rocks, tin cans, etc. The Strikers, with a tough 13-year-old in the role of "Hero" Albert Weisbord exhorting them to be brave, meet the Scabs or Cossacks (representing the police) in realistic Armageddon. The Strikers are always supposed to win. The children dearly love violence. Said a boy of ten years: "I nearly got arrested twice. Gee, I gave the Cossacks a lot of trouble. I wish they would arrest me. My mother threw a rock at a Cossack and raised a lump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Thirty Weeks | 8/16/1926 | See Source »

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