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. . . Re your article concerning the upstanding, two-fisted Col. Randolph who is going to put the fear of God in the Chicago underworld (TIME, Oct. 13). "Terrible Terry," "Three-fingered Jack," "Red Somebody," and a few others are rounded up and presumably life and liberty in Chicago are safe once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Inspiration & Contrast | 11/10/1930 | See Source »

Died. Milton Sills, 48, famed cinemactor, intelligent player of stupid two-fisted roles (Men of Steel, Hard Boiled Haggerty, The Barker}, onetime Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Chicago, onetime actor of melodrama with a kerosene troupe in Ohio, onetime Broadway idol, all his life a student of literature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 29, 1930 | 9/29/1930 | See Source »

At Eastern Point last week the Connecticut Democracy, long a minority in State politics, convened to make nominations for the November election. From Homer Stille Cummings, onetime chairman of the Democratic National Committee, down to the youngest of the 1,000 delegates at the Griswold Hotel, the party representatives had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Cross v. Boss | 9/22/1930 | See Source »

The first is the editorial attitude of the CRIMSON itself in crying, "Hush, hush," and trying to silence widespread dissatisfaction by regretting a "public discussion of affairs not directly the affairs of the public" and calling "the issues too grave for sensational discussion by open letters." This policy falls to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rubbing-It In | 3/20/1930 | See Source »

San Quentin, Calif., where inmates are enabled to take extension work in the State University at Berkeley by correspondence. There Warden James Bernard Holohan, a firm-fisted 200-pounder, guards over 5,000 inmates. Among them are Norman Selby ("Kid McCoy"), killer of his common law wife, now chief of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Stone Upon Stone | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

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