Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chicago police last week arrested a suspect of the murder of Jake Lingle, Chicago Tribune racketeer-reporter (TIME, June 23 et seq.). But again the actual murder case was obscured by the audacity of the St. Louis Star's Reporter Harry T. Brundidge. Reporter Brundidge went to Miami Beach, Fla. to interview Alphonse ("Scarface") Capone, following up the theory that Lingle was only one of many corrupt newsmen. From Florida Brundidge sent his paper a sensational story. Excerpt...
Senator Allen was away from Kansas at the time, touring the globe as professor of journalism with the University Afloat (TIME, Sept. 27, 1926 et seq). He got word in Berlin of the Murdocks' coup. He rushed home, tried to fight the Eagle with its own weapons, made no headway. In the spring of 1928 came the Levands, reputedly through the efforts of a wealthy Wichitan whom the Murdocks' Eagle had offended...
...tempestuous Reichstag there were shouts of "Down with Hindenburg!" last week (see col. 2), but no such blatant outburst marred the triumphant passage of Old Paul through the newly liberated Rhineland (TIME, July 14 et seq.). In city after city massed thousands greeted the venerable president first with a reverent hush, then with a tornado of delirious "hochs...
Greatest of European tiremakers is Andre Michelin et Cie., which in 1929 for the first time in its history showed a deficit of 8,000,000 francs. But it would take more than that to shrink the grin on the rubber face of "Bibendum," famed Michelin trademark mannikin (see cut). Last week Bibendum's grin spread to the faces of 700 former employes of the Michelin plant in Milltown, N. J. Depressed business forced the closing of the plant three months ago. To the employes was due $700,000 from an accumulative yearly bonus which the company paid them under...
Another employe bonus was revealed last week: that of Eugene Gilford Grace, president of Bethlehem Steel Corp. Put on the witness stand in the famed, inter minable Eaton-Youngstown suit (TIME, March 24 et seq.), Mr. Grace declared that his salary was $12,000 per year, but that he also received a bonus figured "at a factor of 1½" Mr. Grace's bonus...