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JOSHUA TODD-Fulton Oursler-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). Bulky, somewhat raffish story of a young man against whom fate loaded the dice...
...been a barker all summer at the Hall of Champions, took office. For president of Lincoln Life they dug up a bald, scrubby-mustached man named Gustav Lindquist who had once been Minnesota's insurance director. Installed as treasurer was a young gentle man who ran the dice game at Michelob's Tavern on State Street...
...depository where loans could be made on the outflowing Lincoln securities, and 2) a reputable vendor of the inflowing "hot" bonds, so that the state insurance department would not be suspicious. With out much trouble, Baiata & friends found a bank for sale in Indianapolis. The dice-playing treasurer swept up an armful of securities from the Lincoln vaults, wrapped them up in a newspaper and hurried to Indianapolis to show the bank's officials he meant business...
...prisoners of New York County Penitentiary came one cheerful morning last week. A guard at the end of the long recreation room, through whose windows the sun laid a pattern of bright stripes, watched the frowzy prisoners shuffle from their cells to walk, talk, or to shoot dice for cigarets & candy...
...reins of the city, Boss Long had Governor Allen appoint Long henchmen to the local Board of Tax Assessors, advised citizens to ignore the Walmsley board's assessments. Finally Boss Long prodded Governor Allen into a moral crusade against Mayor Walmsley, charging that his police had protected bawdy houses, dice games, other iniquities. As a final blow the Governor, early last week, declared "partial" martial law in New Orleans, marched in his guardsmen, seized the office of the local registrar of voters, "purged" the rolls of some 24,000 names which would undoubtedly "vote Walmsley" in the September primary...