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Manhattan tabloids shivered deliciously all last week. A bigwig racketeer whom the police had been after for six months had been captured in bed with a red-headed showgirl, which is the sort of story that gives tabloid editors the courage to go on. The racketeer was Julius Richard ("Dixie") Davis, lawyer for Arthur ("Dutch Schultz") Flegenheimer and, since Mr. Flegenheimer's death by violence in 1935, the head of the biggest, crookedest, most profitable racket in the U. S.-the Harlem numbers game. The showgirl was Hope Dare (Rose Ricker), whose chief professional appearance...
...every opportunity to become such an expert, for the second week's parade of potent businessmen marching up to testify before his unemployment investigations was fully as impressive as the other parade of businessmen who marched through the White House doors (see p. 7). Last week's bigwig witnesses and their opinions...
...deeply forested, lake-strewn country of Finland was celebrating a national festival. Every Finnish hamlet was gaily festooned and beflagged. Schoolchildren had the day off. Deputations from the provinces and from many foreign countries, converging on Helsingfors, the capital,, bore testimonials signed by many a foreign bigwig. At night the festivities culminated in a gigantic concert in the city's largest auditorium, with two symphony orchestras and a choir of 500 voices. There were 8,000 people in the audience. In places of honor sat President Svin-hufvud, Field Marshal Baron Mannerheim and the visiting Prime Ministers of Denmark...
From this whopping start, George Wingfield went on to become the biggest bigwig in Nevada, Nixon went to the U. S. Senate, and when he died in 1912 Wingfield was appointed to succeed him. He declined the job. Unlike John Mackay, George Hearst, William S. O'Brien, who also made fortunes in Nevada. George Wingfield did not emigrate to another State. Presently he owned twelve banks, a chain of gambling halls, many mines, a string of race horses and two Reno hotels, the Riverside and Golden. Potent in State politics, he became popular by his generosity in grubstaking ranchers...
...last issue in 1932 three valued advisers died: Dr. Elihu Thomson, patriarch of General Electric Co.; Dr. Martin Dewey, onetime president of the American Dental Association, and President Maynard Shipley of the Science League of America. But Editor Katterfeld was happy to announce the acquisition of a new bigwig: the Carnegie Institution's Dr. Riddle...