Word: doned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week's indictment was an indirect result of Torrio's arrest in 1936. Evidence dragged out of 100 reluctant witnesses by United States Attorney Lamar Hardy indicated that in 1933, Torrio's income was $150,000, that Prendergast Davies (now in other hands) had done a $4,500,000 business in 1934. Chief of Johnny Torrio's current associates appeared to be a brother-in-law named William Slock-bower. Said Mrs. Slockbower to reporters: "We never expected anything like this . . . I'm sure it's going to be a terrible surprise...
General Pozas has already done yeoman service in restoring order in Barcelona and trying to get a Catalan army to take the field. At a bound the capture of Belchite set Sebastian Pozas right among the hierarchy of the Valencia Government, seemed to make him a figure very much to be counted on in the next few months. This was hard news for extremists. Sebastian Pozas won his general's sash long before the civil war. Privately he hates anarchists as much as he hates foreign fascists...
...dozen classrooms. They battered blackboards into slate piles and desks into kindling, doused gobs of ink on walls, disemboweled a piano, scuttled kitchen 'equipment, tore up writing paper, tore down wall clocks, scattered movable and immovable objects on the floor until thousands of dollar? of damage had been done and the building looked like a Hollywood set at the end of an Edward G. Robinson cinema. What typewriters they forgot to destroy they took with them, sold for 50? each. Next night they came back. This time they were greeted by a policeman who was surprised to discover that...
...amiable expedition heart-warming is the fact that his sympathy toward animals is as rich as his eye for observed detail is acute and his prose style is limpid. Sample: ''Above me rose the immensity of the primeval forest, filtering the golden sunlight, as it has done since the dawn of terrestrial life. In the bowels of this woody giant scampered the trembling feet of little rats, furry squirrels, countless birds, and scaly lizards...
AMERICAN STUFF-An Anthology-Viking ($2). Creative work of sincerity but varying merit, done by 66 WPA artists and writers from 20 States (in their spare time). Veterans include Vardis Fisher, Nathan Asch, Claude McKay, Vincent McHugh, Harry Kemp...