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...break his autocracy three rebel members of Local 306 went to court, sought an injunction restraining President Kaplan from directing its affairs. His henchmen thereupon hired Lawyer Max D. Steuer, slick crook defender, to represent him and the other indicted officers. To pay the Steuer fee ($25,000) the local voted an assessment of $21 on each of its 1,200 members. Last week in Manhattan eight rebels sought another injunction to nullify the local's assessment, make Sam Kaplan pay his own lawyer's bill...
...Freckled Beach," and the even more famous "Lines to My Lover in Hell." When Halcyon's father, a hearty retired sea-captain, comes after her he is forced to wait with a delegation of Halcyon's admirers in the anteroom. He determines by hook or crook to get her out of that, takes her off with him to England...
...wanted to be a crook I could make plenty of cash," declared he to the Press. "None of the crooks in this country knows how to do these things. It took me 20 years to learn what I know about locks. No crook is going to take that trouble. It was different in the old days. [He is in his 40's.] There wasn't so much to know then. Even a child could learn how to pick a warder lock." He learned to pick, and later make, locks by stealing into his mother's jam closet...
Election of Musical Club officers for the coming year resulted as follows: S. H. Frieswyck '34, president; H. C. Crook '34, vice-president; M. R. Rogers '33, treasurer; and R. E. Valante '30, chairman of the program committee. The Club will continue to give its members the opportunity of performing and of having their own compositions performed. Plans are also being made for further discussion of subjects of general musical interest...
...Expert Charles S. Dewey of $2,000 (TIME, May 19, 1930), an exploit which enabled Chief Craconescu to win a medal for his efficiency in recovering the stolen property. Last month he won by the same means a $4,000 reward for the arrest of one Barbale Nagoita, famed crook. Crook Nagoita promptly escaped from prison. Rumanian detectives received a secret tip, searched the house of Chief Craconescu, and there was M. Nagoita, hidden in a closet...