Word: falling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...instructions, though it is not the Prohibition Unit's policy to raid winemakers' homes where no sale has occurred. Superintendent Francis Scott McBride of the Anti-Saloon League repudiated the Maine Senator as a Dry, characterized him as a "Wet-Wet," predicted his defeat this fall...
Just when Tammany Hall was bracing itself for a New York City-wide election this fall, a bloody body was last week plunked down upon its political doorstep. Frank Marlow, murdered Broadway gambler and racketeer, had hardly been settled in his coffin before a so-called Better City Government League nominated one-time (1918-25) Tammany Mayor John Francis ("Red Mike") Hylan to run as an independent candidate against Tammany Mayor James John Walker. The Hylan war-cry: Stamp out crime, vice, corruption...
Gambler Marlow had been a friend of Gambler Arnold Rothstein, whose murder last fall (still unsolved) created a cloud of stories about the underworld entanglements of Tammany leaders (TIME, Dec. 24). Many a New York voter had begun to forget the Rothstein murder when the Marlow murder occurred. Grover Aloysius Whalen, the fastidious police chief who was inducted to quiet the Rothstein uproar, squared his handsomely tailored shoulders, sat up late seeking clues. His detectives swarmed spectacularly through the Broadway brightlight district making raids, seeking witnesses. Other detectives chased a trail leading to Boston. Said the Commissioner: "Actions speak louder...
...being made. From being an extra she worked up to character parts. She had been a free lance for seven years when Paramount signed her. She did more character parts, then she was featured in a college story, finally starred in a succession of shoddy program pictures. Last fall von Sternberg directed her in The Case of Lena Smith, one of the year's best pictures. Now she has been demoted to doing "featured" parts again. She is 5 feet 5? inches tall, weighs 124 pounds, is not stupid...
...Next fall, Choreographer Laban expects to visit the U. S. Perhaps his idea will result in a National Streetdancing Advertising Co. Or perhaps he will find that the U. S. is not yet sufficiently ballet-conscious for the idea to "take...