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...fell. He was dead in half an hour. His 59-year-old brother Carl-a big, amiable murderer, who carried a red bandanna and dressed like a hayseed-had been ambushed and killed by a machine-gunner last fall. Of the three brothers who had held Southern Illinois in fief during the noisy years of Prohibition, only Earl, grey-haired and bitter-mouthed, was left...
Thus another U.S. badman was sentimentally memorialized last week in a ballad freshly recorded for the jukebox trade. Carl Shelton, a country gunman like Jesse James, once held the rackets of all downstate Illinois in fief. His Prohibition Era battles with other gangs took a toll of more than 40 lives. He equipped his boys with dynamite, machine guns and a fleet of armored cars, once rented an airplane to bomb a rival's stronghold. Grey-haired, and living in semi-retirement on a 4,000-acre farm near Fairfield, Ill., he was shot one morning last October...
...results could not safely be predicted until midnight. Came a discreet tap on the door and a youth entered bearing a slip of paper. It was the result of the vote in the Ivry-sur-Seine district, Communist stronghold on the outskirts of the city, Thorez' own electoral fief. At Ivry the constitution had been carried by 14,705-to-6,783. The majority was 2,000 less than Thorez had hoped for. He turned to the three others-Jacques Duclos, André Marty, Léon Mauvais-and said: "We are beaten. In one hour there will...
...Before he took it on, he sought assurances that he would have a positive, clear-cut U.S. policy to apply in Italy. The lack of such a policy in the past hamstrung Admiral Stone, gave Italians a poor opinion of western democracy, and made occupied Italy practically a British fief...
...House to demand an answer to one question: Did the President, contrary to the assurances he had given Mr. Glass in January and in March, intend to insist on the passage of that section of the Administration's Banking Bill which would give the Federal Reserve System in fief to the Treasury Department? Mr. Roosevelt's closest friends in Congress had said the President would so insist. In the face of Mr. Glass's demand for an unequivocal answer, the President said he would not insist. Mr. Glass emerged grinning owlishly. Had the President expressed any opinion...