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...Manhattan, spurred to clean-up pitch by Mayor LaGuardia's zealous reform administration, police corralled scores of petty gamblers, slot machine & punchboard operators. Last week at Louis Gitlan's candy store, zealous Policeman Isadore Newman dropped 25 pennies in a game of bagatelle (shooting marbles from a plunger into numbered holes on a sloping board). On his 25th try, he won 5? worth of candy, arrested Louis Gitlan for owning a gambling device. "All luck." charged Plunger Newman. Asked the Court: "As a matter of fact ... as you continued to play you got better and better...
...George A. Ranney, once International Harvester treasurer, now acting as vice chairman and clean-up man of the ex-Insull Commonwealth Edison Co. of Chicago, who had been invited to chairman Chicago's Continental Illinois National (TIME, Dec. 25), last week wrote a letter to the bank's directors disclosing that: 1) the Federal Reserve Board had given approval for Mr. Ranney's election; 2) the RFC had been asked by letter for similar approval but had never answered. It was so evident last week that the RFC intended to put in Chairman Cummings of Deposit Insurance...
...polite journal of parlor liberalism was considered Red. In 1919-20 crime suddenly engulfed Cleveland. Professor Moley resigned from Western Reserve to take charge of the Cleveland Foundation and, with it conduct a notable survey of criminal conditions in the city. His report not only resulted in a civic clean-up but also marked his real start as a professional factfinder. He conducted similar crime investigations in Missouri, Illinois, Virginia. Pennsylvania, Connecticut. Michigan. California. Indiana. Later his service on the New York State Crime Commission gave him the final stamp of authority as an expert on the administration of criminal...
Stirling Adams, c.f., who made two of the five hits off Ray White of the Lions, Saturday, will lead off, followed by Johnny Ware, r.f., and with Ham Thacher 3b, and Charley Nevin c., in the clean-up position. Frank Gleason 1b., will bat fifth followed by Jim McCaffrey l.f., who shared batting honors with Adams against Columbia, Phil Hines 2b., and Charles Sargent s.s. Coach Fred Mitchell has not yet made the choice between Harold Taylor and John McJennett to take the mound. Taylor, a lanky right hander pitched the two games against Brown last year in which...
...from time to time so that they light up in weird pale colors (''first time on any stage" I. The behavior of The Most Beautiful Girls In The World is a little subdued this year. Presumably as a result of Mayor "Holy Joe" McKee's theatrical clean-up campaign, even in the big Spirit of the Blue Danube number not a single Carrollite breast is bared. But in all other respects, especially in dirty remarks, the new Carroll revue lives up to the tradition of its predecessors...