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...TIME . . . fair and impartial in all things . . . make such a brazen misstatement as that in your article, issue of April 11, headed "Taxation," subhead "Communications." "Post Office Department begging Congress to increase first-class postal rate to make that service self- sustaining...
Young women of the most brazen sort, Auckland reporters agreed, were ringleaders in turning an orderly procession of jobless men down Queen Street into a wild scramble of pillage. One of the hussies wore a sweater?the reporters were sure. Beyond that they only knew that the young women placed themselves unexpectedly at the head of the procession and began throwing stones into the window of a jewelry store. Four hussies were seen to escape with skirtsful of jewelry down a side street. By that time their feminine example had spurred the men to some really heavy looting. Auckland police...
Town Topics is brazen indeed in its comments-fawning or abusive-concern-ing socialites or would-be socialites. But it is Tatler (merged last year with Club Fellow & Washington Mirror-TIME. April 21, 1930) which publishes the ruthless list of debutante ratings whose author. "Audacious," was revealed last week as Editor Schemm. The grades in the list are "A," "B," "C," "D" and a dreadful, all-inclusive "E-Z." Specimen comments from the current issue...
Fourteenth kidnaping in St. Louis in two years, the abduction of Furrier Berg was one of the most brazen. It occurred on busy Lindell Boulevard in heavy traffic while Mr. Berg's Negro chauffeur was driving him home from the office. As the car slowly crossed Euclid Avenue, just around the corner from the Park Plaza, two men jumped aboard, displayed revolvers, blindfolded Mr. Berg with taped goggles and forced the chauffeur to continue driving to the outskirts of the city. There they put the chauffeur out, and took their victim to a flat. Soon the first of a series...
Bill Fallon's father was an Irish contractor who prospered in Tammany-run Manhattan, gave his son a college education at Fordham. There Bill was popular with his peers, well-thought-of by his preceptors, and constantly on the edge of trouble. With a winning disposition, brazen effrontery, an excellent memory and a gift of the gab, he naturally turned . . . to the Law. Starting in Westchester County he soon rose to be Assistant District Attorney. In his prosecution of Warden Thomas Mott Osborne of Sing Sing for mismanagement and immorality he showed that he understood his job, but overplayed...