Word: faked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...organized vice controlled by 'Lucky' Luciano felt the knife, and after extraditing Luciano from Hot Springs, Arkansas, where that worthy went to hide out, Dewey convicted him for a prison stretch of thirty-five to fifty years. Then the restaurant trade, which had been victimized by a series of fake labor unions and "protective associations" to the tune of millions, was cleared, and likewise the live poultry racket, which the notorious "Tootsie" Herbert controlled was broken up. The trucking racket, one of the toughest in the City was put straight, through not before one of the leaders, a man well...
...term last week needed a thorough rugbeating and airing in the minds of U. S. citizens it was "modernism" in architecture and design. A fact long apparent to thoughtful people was that there is often something fake, ill-fitting and hothouse about the designs for public buildings and monuments which graduates of great architectural schools turn out every year. Also apparent was the fact that there is something faddish and affected or else starved and forbidding about many examples of so-called "functional" design. After the fine economies of Colonial building disappeared in the U. S. during the 19th Century...
...however, that the wide open game on which Dick Harlow's Maryland reputation was supposed to have been built and which football followers have been waiting patiently to see introduced to Stadium crowds will make its appearance this season. With Art Oakes to hurl passes and Vernon Struck to fake and to bewilder the opposing backfields once he's shaken into the open Harlow has apparently the stuff to start a really tricky offense...
...Berlin acrid yellowish smoke billowed last week around the Hindenburg Palace in which visiting Benito Mussolini was to be a guest. Bombing planes chased by pursuit ships streaked across the sky, anti-aircraft guns chattered, the entire Wilhelmstrasse quarter of government buildings disappeared in the thick smoke of fake bombs, and subject to severe fines was any citizen of Berlin who did not dive like a rabbit into the bombproof shelter nearest him. Black streamers were plastered about liberally to indicate "DESTRUCTION" and afternoon papers spoke of the bombing fleet as "RED." Thus last week German minds were prepared...
Enough of German Art and enough of fake war was what Benito Mussolini had had by this time. He wanted to inspect one of the most closely guarded set of secrets in Germany: the mighty Krupp munitions works at Essen. Only trouble with this was that, instead of speeding a few miles to Berlin as planned, the Dictators would have to travel clear across Germany again to Essen in the west, then cross it once more to Berlin. But what Mussolini wants Mussolini wants. To a microphone leaped German Minister of Propaganda and Public Enlightenment Dr. Paul Josef Goebbels, broadcast...