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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jungle stretches southwest out of the business section. Here are factories, dirty alleys, frame hovels and a population of Negroes and foreign-born toilers who cluster at eventide in Greek restaurants and poolrooms. Here, for 25 years, Jumbo Crowley held sway, sending his cosmopolitan children to the polls to vote as he thought best; dispensing protection, advice or instructions, to henchmen in whose doings he never was implicated-until lately, when he was arrested for directing certain alcohol operations, and since when- they say-he has completely reformed...
Provisions of a presidential decree promulgated to take effect on July 31: 1) Church property to be confiscated. 2) No foreign-born clergymen may officiate in Mexico. 3) No religious corporation may conduct an educational institution. 4) Monasteries and nunneries are dissolved. 5) No religious publication may publish any account of or comment on national political affairs. 6) There can be no religious instruction in schools. 7) Religious ministers shall not be able to associate themselves for political purposes. 8) All religious acts of public worship shall be celebrated absolutely inside of churches which shall always be under the vigilance...
Monks, nuns, foreign-born prelates disconsolately look for redemption to the special prayer ordained by the indignant Holy See set for Aug. 1 (the festival of "St. Peter-in-chains...
That cycle began in 1905 when a female child was born to Dr. and Mrs. C. A. Wills in Centreville, Alameda County, Calif. Sleep- simple food-outdoor exercise-her father had used the phrases before. He used them on his patients, and pretty soon he was able to move to Berkeley and send Helen east to school at Hopkins Hall (near Bennington, Vt.). She was still very small when the War started, and one year she came home for the summer holidays to find the house strangely empty. Her father had gone to France. When, two years later, he came...
...already been hobo, sailor, sheepherder, circus hand, newspaper reporter, wrestling instructor, prison official (finger prints), social worker, Harvard M. A., professor, translator, research ethnologist and author of a first novel (Run Sheep Run) that was universally hailed as "impressive, fascinating, vigorous, sinister, virile, etc., etc." He was born of mixed Welsh†, French, Irish and Norwegian stock on an Indian reservation. The collection of novels he intends to write he calls "The American Panorama...