Word: franked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...DEMOCRATIC PARTY: A HISTORY-Frank R. Kent-Century ($4). Mr. Kent, hot-pointed commentator of the Baltimore Sunpapers, strives for quiet lucidity in this book; tells a simple, well-connected story of the oldest party...
...harder egg than Murphy. As one gangster is killed off he is succeeded by an-other who is less restrained by the standards of civilized society. The progression is from fists to bombs, to pistols, or to machine guns." The Murphy murder quickly reverberated in Brooklyn, N. Y. Frank Uale, alias Yale, dressy gangster and racketeer, friend of Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone of Chicago, was cruising comfortably in his shiny Lincoln sedan. Another car (with Illinois license plates) slid up behind. Four men opened fire at the back of Uale's head, then drew alongside and shot...
Married. Janet De Pinna, daughter of Leo S. De Pinna (clothing) of Manhattan; to one Frank Armer; in Mamaroneck, N. Y., by Rabbi Stephen S. Wise...
...Died. Frank Uale, gangster; in Brooklyn
...founders of the trans-Atlantic telephone service expected that their income would come largely from business men who want things done efficiently, and in a hurry. But, last week, Frank Baldwin Jewett, vice president of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co., president of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, revealed that 43% of the trans-Atlantic phone calls have been of a social or frivolous nature, that 28% were miscellaneous, human interest calls, that 25% were business calls between bankers and brokers, that only 1% were between newspapermen...