Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cement until it dried, then tossed into Narragansett Bay. Perhaps he could explain, too, what happened to "Legs" Carella, whose body was found wrapped up in burlap with feet hacked off, gold tooth knocked out, scars sliced away. Most hopeful were they of pinning on the Rettich gang the great $428,000 armored truck robbery in Brooklyn last summer (TIME, Sept. 3), Day by day grew the list of crimes of which the gang was suspected: a mail truck robbery of $100,000 in Warren, Ohio; another of $51,000 in Butler, Pa.; an American Railway Express truck robbery...
Fearing that New Orleans audiences "might riot" if shown The March of Time's sequence on Huey Long, the Manhattan headquarters staff of Loew's Theatres Inc. ordered that sequence deleted in that city. Fearing a revenge tax from the Long Gang if the sequence were not deleted, and riots from anti-Longsters if it were, the Sanger Circuit decided not to show this March of Time issue at all in Louisiana...
...baby which recently enlivened France's great spy gang trial by biting a lawyer (TIME, April 22) snoozed last week as its mother got three years. The other baby, when red-robed Chief Justice Etienne Revol hunched forward to sentence its mother also to three years, let out throat-splitting yells. Thirteen spies received sentences totaling 41 years and ten months...
...Simply one maneuver in the steady retreat of the New Deal Administration before the silver gang," said the New York Herald Tribune. And most disinterested observers agreed that the President had jacked up the price of silver principally to forestall a silverite assault in Congress. However it was a trivial sop. U. S. producers nowadays turn out only about 26,000.000 oz. of silver a year and their bonus from the price increase will be less than...
...accident or design, Lawyer Berthon, marking his points slowly with outstretched forefinger, suddenly found it in the mouth of one of the babies and cried "ouch!" In London this made the headline-of-the-week in Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express: BABY BITES LAWYER AT FRENCH SPY-GANG TRIAL. In Paris tender newshawks reported gushingly upon the infant and how it had just cut four milk teeth...