Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...utterly impossible to bargain with a Federal court." Then he had allowed frightened Capone to change his plea to not guilty, had sought?and failed ?to have a grand jury indict him under the Jones ("5 & 10") Law for violation of the Volstead Act (TIME, Sept. 21 et ante). Leaving off his judicial robes, Judge Wilkerson leaned over his desk in a business suit, showed that he took more than a passing interest in the case...
When the New York Worlds were bought by Scripps-Howard, all Manhattan publishers began to scramble for pieces of the late World circulation (TIME, March 9 et seq.). Last week suggestions of who got what pieces of the World pic were found in publishers' statements for the first six-month period since the change, compared with Audit Bureau of Circulations figures for the same period (April-October) of last year. If the World pie had been the only source of increased circulation for other papers since last year, the slices went like this...
...laid in the counting house of Gideon Bloodgood (hiss!), a merciless moneychanger who is about to succumb to the panic of 1837. Although not one line of the old script has been changed, Manhattan spectators, aware of last year's Bank of U. S. failure (TIME, Dec. 22, et seq.), will believe that a modern interpolation must have been made when the collapse of the "United States Bank"? an institution of President Van Buren's time?is spoken...
...Herbert Spencer Dickey was back in Manhattan last week from his discovery of the Orinoco's headwaters (TIME, Sept. 28 et ante). Each day he went to his office in the Explorers Club to work on a tart book for which fellow explorers, lounging in the club's red chairs, may denounce him. To be published this winter, the book is a denunciation of expeditions, particularly those to South America. Dr. Dickey considers the aims of most expeditions falsely pretentious, insincere. Men go on most of them really for sport, not for science. Their scientific results...
...sense an anticlimax when they skidded their wheelless Bellanca monoplane into the airport at Wenatchee, Wash., 41 hr. after taking off from Samishiro Beach, 280 mi. north of Tokyo. Their troubles on the flight had been less than their troubles with the Japanese authorities in Tokyo (TIME, Sept. 28, et ante). Yet their flight, 4,500 mi., was one of the greatest long distance flights accomplished. They had crossed the last of the northern oceans...