Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meat dealers noted with satisfaction that only the meat and oil industries (as in 1914) are in a position to handle increased production immediately without sweeping rearrangement of facilities. In Chicago, sardonic Earl Browder, No. 1 U. S. Communist, told a rally of 12,000 sympathizers that Poland could yet win Soviet aid if Polish workers would oust their present leaders. With Germany's war machine in motion, Communist Earl Browder changed his rationalization of the Nazi-Soviet pact from "a wonderful contribution to peace" to "the only possibility of a decisive blow for peace...
Annenberg. Having pried into the manifold affairs of Philadelphia Publisher Moses L. Annenberg (TIME, May 1, et seq.), a U. S. grand jury in Chicago last week took a new way to charge him and associates with an old crime. By coding, printing and transmitting horse-race entries, odds, results to bookies, said the jurors, an Annenberg printing house and his Nationwide News Service conducted a lottery by interstate wire and the U. S. mails...
...When Lepke Buchalter fled to the G-Men, he was No. 4 on their list of public-enemies-at-large. Ahead of and just below him were four bank robbers. Last week G-Men in Chicago caught his successor in No. 4 position: Joseph Paul Cretzer, a mustached punkaroo who has been popping in & out of western jails since 1927. Arrested with him in a dreary Chicago flat was his wife, Edna May ("Teddy") Cretzer, who pinked a police-man during a getaway last June...
...exile, Wilhelm's oldest son, Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor August Ernst, now 57, was discovered living quietly in Potsdam, near Berlin. Almost forgotten last week was the deep hatred which citizens of the Allies held for the Crown Prince, almost forgotten such famed cartoons as the one the Chicago Herald printed in World War I (see cut). Caption: "Drink...
...cost setup, with Correspondent John Steele the only staff man abroad, Chicago Tribune's Sigrid Schultz on retainer in Berlin, Waverly Root in Paris, English Newsman Patrick Maitland on tap in Warsaw. At home plate virtually the whole team is clear and quick-thinking, war-trained Commentator Raymond Gram Swing, who has been eating, sleeping, reading, listening, broadcasting round the clock in a 24th floor office of WOR on Broadway...