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Concrete, crushed stone, pipe, real estate and liquor were some of the business sidelines from which leathery old Tom Pendergast drew copious revenue during his long reign as Democratic boss of Kansas City. When Pendergast was indicted last month for evading Federal income taxes on $315,000 of alleged boodle received in 1935 from an insurance rate "fixing" (TIME, April 17), one man quizzed closely by the Treasury's agents was Edward L. Schneider, secretary-treasurer of eight of the Boss's businesses. Fortnight ago, presumably on Schneider's testimony primarily, Boss Pendergast was indicted again, this...
...extension, revision or junking of the present so-called Neutrality Act, important provisions of which expire May 1. To hear the Elder Statesman all but two of the 23 committeemen turned out.* Also present, though no committeeman, was North Dakota's Senator Gerald P. ("Neutrality") Nye, who took copious notes...
...Wagner's Bayreuth Festspielhaus was built to mount it properly. It is no longer revolutionary, for the Metropolitan, like the Festspielhaus, is hidebound by the Ring tradition that not a hair of Wotan's beard must be altered, not a comma of Wagner's copious stage directions deleted...
After the faceoff the blood begins to flow in copious quantities. The Winthrop forward line, composed of Jack Kennedy, Torby Macdonald, and Ben Smith goes crashing down toward the Lowell cage, battering the puck about like an old shoe. The usual result of such a foray into enemy territory is a terrific 10-man collision, the nucleus of which is the man with the puck. There is no escaping this sort of defense. Then Lowell's Bud Doering takes the misshapen rubber disk that has been beaten to a pulp by the Winthrop bludgeons, and careens down the ice until...
...Colorado River Aqueduct will lift a river higher than any river has ever been lifted before. It will divert a billion gallons a day of the copious Colorado River and lift that water 1,600 ft.-a small mountain's height - and drop it down again 340 miles from where...