Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week came out of hiding to: 1) negotiate with Capone for a beer-peddling and gambling job in the North Side he once had ruled; 2) plot, with Aiello, Capone's death. He was arrested, questioned. He joked police and newsgatherers: "Who killed Lingle [TIME, June 23, et seq.] and Zuta? That's easy -Santa Claus! . . . I'm a lover of outdoor sports . . . vice president of the Central Cleaners & Dyers ... a reputable businessman. I make $25,000 a year." But he was loud and earnest in wanting the Press to know he never had blamed Capone...
...statute books by the last British Government (that of Conservative Stanley Baldwin) this act was designed to prevent a recurrence of the British general strike (TIME, May 10, 1926 et seq.), is detested by every Laborite. Clamor within the party has finally forced Laborite MacDonald to seek its repeal, to risk almost certain defeat on the one issue on which the Liberals, who hold the balance of power in Parliament, may be expected to vote against...
Slim hopes that the conference might succeed were based last week on a plan to be offered by the Viceroy of India, Baron Irwin, as an alternative to the recommendations of the Simon Report (TIME, June 30 et seq.). It was expected that Lord Irwin would urge an extension of the system of "dyarchy." Under this system the less important provincial offices of the Government of India are administered by natives, all the really vital departments, such as Police, being "reserved." To carry "dyarchy" a little further would be an important concession from the British point of view, would...
Birthday. Edward Wentworth Beatty, Canadian Pacific Railway's president. Age: 52. Date: Oct. 16. Celebration: dinner given by Canadian tycoons-Sir Herbert Holt (president, Royal Bank of Canada), Sir Charles Gordon (president, Bank of Montreal), R. S. McLaughlin (president, General Motors of Canada) et al.-at swank Montreal Forest & Stream Club...
...market have been among the vital interests of Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. All of his brethren deplored his gambling in stocks, and at the Dallas convention of his church last spring, he tearfully promised to gamble no more, was forgiven (TIME, May 26 et seq.). But four of his brethren in the South still deplored his conduct in general, which they felt unfitted him for the service of God. While he was honeymooning in Brazil with the second of the two women who have been dear to him, these Southerners instituted an inquiry...