Word: atlantas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...integrity of Eugene Meyer, whom he called the "Kingfish of the Federal Reserve." Croaked Senator Long: "What he won't do ain't in the books! Yet we hunt boys with a pint of whiskey on the hip. What's the use of keeping Capone in Atlanta? What's the use of hunting Insull in Greece?" At 5 p. m., worn to a frazzle, he fairly begged: "It's time someone should move a recess." Montana's Wheeler obliged, but the motion was lost. During a brief pause in the filibuster the First Deficiency...
...small Anne Cannon Reynolds II, two-year-old daughter of Smith Reynolds' first wife. In a deserted house near Atlanta last week, police used a special electric trap to catch an ex-convict and parachute jumper named Odell Boyles who had been threatening to kidnap small Anne Reynolds II so persistently that she had had a police guard for the last three months. The Brandon Smiths had kept the house lit up, lights burning on the grounds of their estate night after night for three months to foil marauders...
...Pictures Inc. and Vitaphone Corp.; by J. Harold Hardy, Georgia chain gang warden; for $1,000,000 each for "vicious, untrue and false attacks" in Warner's film / Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, cinematized from Fugitive Robert Elliott Burns's book (TIME, Jan. 2); in Atlanta...
...Atlanta, said Governor Richard Brevard Russell Jr.: "This decision makes it easy to understand how the most horrible crime of modern times, the kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby, which shocked the entire world, could occur and go unpunished in a State whose Governor has such ideas...
...Percy Jay Fuller, Manhattan stockbroker, was convicted in June 1928 of using the mails to defraud in a scheme to convert garbage to gasoline. Released from Atlanta Federal Penitentiary last June, New York authorities requested his extradition on a perjury charge connected with the same case. Governor Russell refused on the grounds that Fuller's further prosecution was an attempt to collect a private debt...