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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...onetime Kapitan of Munich police, was pursued to Hamburg, arrested. In the sedan was a cigar box. In the cigar box was a pound and a half of smokeless powder and a time fuse. At the same time Hamburg police raided the apartment of a Hamburg bank clerk, found another bomb containing the same type of powder. The arrest of Bombardier Nickels and the bank clerk led to the discovery of a bomb factory in Berlin operated by a certain Erich Timm. Much more important was the discovery that these men and many others were members of the dreaded Organization...
Such is the general tenor of conversations often held between a certain famed young man and the bright young person whom he calls his wife. The famed young man has always found it difficult to grasp the inward significance of mathematical and other studious problems. The "wife," or in terms divorced from West Point slang, the famed young man's West Point roommate, is a "star man," standing in the first ten of the first class. He is good at all things studious. His name is J. A. K. Herbert. He is Captain of B Company...
...Pino, started his magazine. He never paid back the money, she says. After the magazine was started, Convict Burns and Plaintiff del Pino were married "to the entire satisfaction and good wishes of his family" (his brother is a minister). When Greater Chicago prospered he "stayed away from home . . . found amusement and pleasure in gambling dens." treated Plaintiff Burns with "utter contempt...
...hunter for titles and "position" can still be found, but he is rapidly becoming obsolete. No longer does the football captain pace the Yard with an "H" emblazoned on his chest, giving advice and controlling the destinies of thousands of satellites. Nor does the presidency of some undergraduate activity carry with it anything more than prominence in a specialized field...
...with a tendency toward an Increasing emphasis upon amateur sports, upon tennis and golf and polo, that must be of some significance to the public at large, but of even more consequence to the collegiate world in which the best of amateur sport in certain fields is to be found...