Word: atlantas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...town. Now managing editor of the profitable New York Eve ning Journal, which he has built up as he built up the Chicago American and Los Angeles Herald, "Bill" Curley is Publisher Hearst's chief "trouble-shooter." From his Manhattan headquarters he dashes about to Boston, Chicago, Atlanta, Mil waukee, doctoring Hearst evening papers, advising changes, sometimes hiring and (a task which he detests) firing...
Appendicitis. Dr. Frank Kells Boland of Atlanta re-emphasized the fact that purgatives and delayed operations are the outstanding causes of death from appendicitis. More men have the disease than women. More men die from it than women. Negroes show comparatively few cases of appendicitis until they abandon simple foods and eat more meat, sugar and "things that have been polished, pickled, frozen, thawed and sterilized." Some whites have learned not to take a physic for every stomachache, observed Dr. Boland. But not many Negroes. Favorite purgatives of Negroes are castor oil and epsoni salts...
...Actor Means, 53, a thick-necked, slackjawed, dimpled-cheeked Southerner, is the author of The Strange Death of President Harding in which it is intimated that Mrs. Harding poisoned her husband (TIME, March 31, 1930). The book was written after Means had served three years (1925-28) in Atlanta Penitentiary for bribery and violation of the Prohibition laws. Before that he had turned on his employer, onetime Attorney General Harry Micajah Daugherty, with tall tales before a Senate Committee about the "Ohio Gang's" activities. Before the U. S. entered the War, he says, he served with the German...
Jailed. Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone, 34, Chicago hoodlum, for ten years in Atlanta Penitentiary; for tax evasion...
...Author-Born in Charlottesville, Va. in 1897, Author Flannagan attended the University of Virginia until the War lifted him from his books into the Air Corps, though he did not fly overseas. He started newspaper work with the Atlanta Journal in 1919, has worked with...