Word: emanuele
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alfred Emanuel Smith-Viking...
...prospective victims, names of leaders, location of substations, connections with reputable banks and lawyers. When all seemed prime, he launched his attack. After the first reports from his lieutenants, he exulted over a complete dry-up of the district. Later came surprises and disappointments. Surprises: capture of Emanuel ("Mannie") Kessler, "King of Bootleggers" and his partner Morris Sweetwood, both onetime Atlanta timeservers; both thought to have reformed; discovery among syndicate papers of a check signed by Chicago's gang king, Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone, now imprisoned at Philadelphia. Disappointments: release of Kessler and Sweetwood for lack of evidence; failure...
Appointment disclosed. Calvin Coolidge of Northampton, Mass.; Julius Rosenwald of Chicago; and Alfred Emanuel Smith of Manhattan...
...Platt Amendment, as Candidate Alfred Emanuel Smith did not know but promised to find out during the campaign (TIME, July 23, 1928), was a rider on the Army appropriation act of 1901. It defined the terms under which Cuba might have its liberty, subject to intervention by the U. S. if and when the terms were violated. It was the possibility of Platt Amendment intervention which last fortnight was bothering "El Gallo." Doubtless Mr. Guggenheim, too, perused the Platti-tudes with close attention. In the end, however, the Senate decided that Cuban affairs, though vexed, were not critical. The situation...
Appointed. Alfred Emanuel Smith, to be a trustee of New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse University, Syracuse...