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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fidgety, canny Roger Touhy, 45, sentenced to 99 years for the $70,000 kidnapping of Promoter John ("Jake the Barber") Factor in 1933, is one of the few real gangster toughies left. A runty guy (5 ft. 5, 139 lb.), he bossed the Capone-rivaling Touhy mob during Chicago's gory beer-war and kidnap-racket days, until sentence in 1934 cut him down. Slant-eyed Basil Banghart, 41, the Touhy mob's tommy-gunner, likewise was serving 99 years for the Factor job. Chicago detectives label him "a regular sharpie," tougher by far than Tough Touhy. Completely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Back to the Roaring '20s | 10/19/1942 | See Source »

...Labor on the map. It was he who conceived the ideal of industrial organization, and led his courageous group of miners from the musty fold of the A F of L. It was he who built up the ranks during the depression years, and made them a strong political factor in the elections of 1932 and 1936. Strongfisted and crusading, John L. was the biggest frog in a growing pond of industrial unionism up until...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lewis' Last Leap | 10/8/1942 | See Source »

Northern Europe? British bombers over Oslo (see p. 28), were enough to prove again that Norway was a powder keg under the occupying Nazis, awaiting only the Allied match. A factor in Allied calculations, well known to the Germans, was the U.S. P-38, a fighter plane able to fly from Iceland or Britain to a landing point in Norway, thus enormously extending the feasible area of invasion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STRATEGY: Give Us a Sign | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

...fact that Hitler did not once refer to America he considered especially significant, for this showed that the Chancellor was afraid to worry his people about the prospect of America taking a more active part as a decisive factor in this war as in the last...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HITLER TALK LACKS PUNCH | 10/1/1942 | See Source »

...Theirs," says Author William Gaunt, "was the tragedy of the century. . . . They had many different enthusiasms-in which, however, there is one consistent factor-a defiance of materialism." Few novels are as absorbing as this collective biography of the Pre-Raphaelites; few are as funny. And no other book on Rossetti and his circle has set them so accurately in their historical context, has given to the queer, excessive things they did so clear a historical meaning. For the Pre-Raphaelites, says Gaunt, are the only optimistic rebel artists who have so far defied industrial civilization. "They would not adapt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rossetti & His Circle | 9/21/1942 | See Source »

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