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...always, there is a little pathos in the sentimental farce. Could their steamer but cross the equator southward bound, what joy there would be for the "gobs" and the "girls" at the rites of Neptune, especially if that God of the damp and dripping should unmask and betray the broad, carmen grimace...
...talked, Peter Kuerten's eyes often winked rapidly, his hands often fluttered. "These symptoms," Teuton psychiatrists at the trial told Teuton reporters, "betray a lust to kill...
...from jail) by 14 kidnappers, allegedly Klansmen, to a secluded spot where they were flogged with ropes and left bound & bleeding. Neither victim was again heard of. Haled before District Judge Grover Adams to tell the source of his story, Reporter Barr would say only: "I can't betray a confidence." He was fined $100 and went to jail for contempt of court. Telegrams of congratulation, letters, gifts of cigarets, books and magazines poured into his cell. Reporter Barr's lawyer finally persuaded him that his information was not legally "privileged," that he might be kept behind bars...
Admitting that he originated the leaflet Mayor Thompson explained that Mrs. McCormick had deserted his presidential candidacy at the Republican National Convention in 1928. He added: "As long as I am permitted to live I will never betray the people of Chicago by voting for any member of the McCormick family for anything...
Pressmen waited for Senator Nye thus challenged to make a hot denial of responsibility for the ransackings and riflings. But Senator Nye made no denial. Instead he interrogated Dannenberg detectives, was told that his own investigators had tried to bribe the private sleuths to betray their employer. A roll of money was thrown down on the committee table as evidence of the bribe. Declared Chairman...