Word: fiascos
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...begins promisingly with a forthright description of the major fiasco in the pursuit by Federal agents of John Dillinger-the shooting at Little Bohemia, near Rhinelander, Wis. on April 22, 1934, when agents under Purvis' direction surrounded Dillinger's hiding-place and in the subsequent confusion shot three innocent men and lost one agent to the escaping gunmen. Recounting the last-minute tip that made haste necessary and bad organization inevitable, Author Purvis tells of the flight of three airplanes loaded with special agents from Chicago, of the drive to Little Bohemia in ramshackle cars, of sneaking through...
...electoral total touched a near-record low, he had at least topped Herbert Hoover's 15,000,000 popular votes of 1932. No such solace was available to the nation's third party candidates and their backers, whose wretched performances at the polls made the Republican fiasco seem a comparative triumph...
...when torches were applied and gasoline blazed high. Cheering wildly a Red column swept up the rocky base of the fortress-only to be driven back by sickening gasoline fumes while the blaze soon guttered out on the rocks. To save his Red face after this fiasco, General José Asensio of the Red militia started talking about how sorry he was for the White women and young cadets in the rock-hewn cellars of the Alcázar from which no Red efforts seemed able to dislodge them...
...money in his pocket, Sprinter Owens made no secret of the fact that he was returning to the U. S. to cash in on his athletic reputation for all it was worth. Bug-eyed Radioclown Eddie Cantor, whose recent offer of a college scholarship ended in an unfortunate cribbing fiasco (TIME, April 20), was said to be offering Owens $4,000 a week just to take him on a personal tour. A Manhattan theatre was said to be clamoring for the dusky speedster's services at $10,000 a week. Hotfoot to a radio telephone trotted Bill ("Bojangles") Robinson...
...widespread U. S. criticism was the abrupt cancellation by President Roosevelt and Postmaster General Farley in 1934 of every U. S. airmail contract because of alleged collusion. For two months the Army flew the mails, at a cost of 13 lives (TIME, Feb. 19, 1934 et seq.). When this fiasco forced the Government to back down, return the airmail to the commercial lines after ousting nearly 20 top men in the industry, all the airlines involved brought suits totaling some $15,000,000 against the Post Office Department. Last week the Government settled the $9,000,000 suits of American...