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...dyer, a law clerk, an architect, a theatrical manager and eight other average citizens, sitting as a Federal jury in Manhattan last week, found Jack ("Legs") Diamond, New York's pasty-face, shot-riddled gangster guilty of conspiracy to violate the Prohibition law, and of operating a still. For four days they had listened to witnesses detail Diamond's beer-running activities in the Catskills. The verdict was Diamond's first major conviction in a career of 25 arrests for everything from petty larcency to murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: It Don't Mean Nothing,Honey | 8/17/1931 | See Source »

Offenses. Juvenile convicts under the Prohibition law totaled 990 (44%,) of whom 250 were 16 years old or less. Young violators of immigration laws numbered 492, while 392 were held under the National Motor Vehicle Act (Dyer Act). Declared the report: "The great majority of the juvenile offenders are typical delinquency cases. It is only by accident that they have fallen within the Federal jurisdiction. Joy rides, attempts to elope in the course of which State lines are crossed, may terminate in the Federal Court. Other couples pursuing similar romantic aims but taking a different route may be apprehended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Little Accidents | 7/20/1931 | See Source »

...employes by sitting grimly on a factory chimney for 129 hours, disregarding all the blandishments of the Tokyo Police Force to coax him down (TIME, Dec. 1). Last week 200 employes of Japan Dyeing & Weaving Works went out on strike because of the discharge of a fellow workman. The dyers and weavers remembered the November success of Chimney Sitter Tanabe, determined to emulate him. However, not a single striking dyer could be found who would volunteer to sit on the Weaving Works high chimney. This difficulty was solved when a sympathetic, bespectacled young man from the Amalgamated Printers' Union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Sitting Printer; Bean Soup | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

...last minute of the game Hollis scored a try winning the game for the Orangemen. SYRACUSE 2ND HARVARD 2ND. Hollis, f.b. f.b., Caturani Orio, r.w. r.w., Gannon Campbell, r.c. r.c., Hartridge Hixson, l.c. l.c., Sheldon Cronin, l.w. l.w., Snelling Rizzo, s.o.h. s.o.h., Bates Levigneh, b. h.b., Ossorio Dyer, l.f. l.f., MacLagan Leathersich, l.f. l.f., Rowell Thorpe, l.f. l.f., Oppenheimer Binder, 2f. 2f., Schwyzer Kirkwood, 2f. 2f., Hokanson Dubbs, 3f. 3f., Fallon Shepard, 3f. 3f., Northey Simone, 3f. 3f., Gilbert...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WEEK-END SPORTS | 5/4/1931 | See Source »

Epee: Righeimer defeated Wesselman, 1-0; Cassidy 1-0; Ludlam, 1-0; Dyer, 1-0; and Beard, 1-0. Ludlam defeated Wesselman, 1-0; Cassidy, 1-0; Dyer, 1-0; and Beard, 1-0. Wesselman defeated Cassidy, 1-0; Dyer, 1-0; and Beard, 1-0. Cassidy defeated Dyer, 1-0; and Beard, 1-0. Dyer defeated Beard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RIGHEIMER, WING, AND CASSIDY WIN IN FENCING TILTS | 3/28/1931 | See Source »

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