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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three months ago, five bullets whizzed from a thicket in a vacant lot in Canton, Ohio. One of them entered the vigorous brain of Editor Don R. Mellett of the Canton Daily News, as he was putting away his car for the night (TIME, July 26 et seq.). An employe of Newspaper-owner James M. Cox, thrice Governor of Ohio, Editor Mellett had built up circulation but incurred bitter enmities by bold-printed attacks on Canton's labyrinthine underworld, Canton's obviously corrupt police force, Canton's civic officials. Detectives swarmed to Canton. Newspapers all over Ohio succeeded in confusing...
Last week they caught Pat Mc-Dermott. He had been residing in a "luxurious" flat in Cleveland, equipped with a motor car and servant, and taking the air only at night. Detective Ora Slater, working under Prosecutor C. B. McClintock of Stark County, played upon the consciences of Pat McDermott's brothers until they agreed to lure him to Twin Rocks. Pa., by publishing news that his aged mother was dying. Mr. McDermott went to Twin Rocks and was given a week by his brothers to make a case for himself. Then the relatives sent for Detective Slater and ushered...
Once there was a pudgy-faced newsboy on Chicago's West Side. His name was William Lorimer. His tactics were questionable but he moved fast-bootblack, sign painter, street car conductor, "boss" of Chi- cago Republicanism, banker, U. S. Senator. The higher he rose, the fatter he grew and the more crooked became his methods. In 1912 the Senate ejected him for having obtained his seat by bribery. In 1914 his La Salle Street Trust and Savings Bank crashed; seven years later he was put in jail because the Government found his banking schemes fraudulent...
...will travel reached a working arrangement. Since absolutely free transportation over U. S. railroads is prohibited by law except for railroad employes, the Commission will create a special passenger rate schedule for the trains on which Her Majesty travels and at once withdraw the rate thereafter. Thus the ten-car special train placed at Queen Marie's disposal will twice cross the continent at a reputed cost...
...Saadat Ali Khan, Indian potentate: "I have just had built for me, in London, a special hunting motor car, camouflaged in green, brown and other jungle shades, to deceive lions and tigers. There is also a dazzle light to blind them. The car, which cost about $20,000, is of 50-horsepower, with special buffers, front and rear, to protect it from charges by wild animals. I have added an ice box, for drinks...