Word: dragnet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...murderer, you are shown the effect which a series of his crimes has had upon the city where he lives. Tipplers in beer gardens suspect each other of being monsters. An elderly gentleman who tells an urchin what time it is is nearly mobbed. The police make a dragnet around the town, question hundreds of suspects, arrive at no conclusions. Finally the outlaws of the town-pickpockets, forgers, cardsharps, safe-blowers, burglars, beggars, all of them under closer scrutiny than usual because of the child murders-form a furtive posse. The next time you see the murderer he is staring...
...Catalonia at the other end of the Pyrenees, Syndicalists and Communists have been waiting for many weeks for a chance to rise. Bilbao was their signal. In Barcelona a swiftly thrown police dragnet arrested the organizer of a general strike, an Italian named Duriti, and dozens of assistants, seized truckloads of pamphlets and posters. Trouble centered further north, about the manufacturing town of Manresa, where 410 years ago St. Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Jesuits, spent a year in a cave preparing his Exercitia Spiritualia...
...scare-head fashion. Several of the stories in the first issue are about six months old (e. g., Starr Faithfull, Two-Gun Crowley, Bryan Untiedt) but an effort will be made to make the magazine a news-of-the-month resume. Publisher is Herman Rawitser (Flying Aces, Detective Dragnet, Football Classic, et al.); editor is one Percy L. Trussell...