Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mexico's Clyde Tingley, Mayor of Albuquerque, will have his friend Douglas Fairbanks on hand on New Year's day to help inaugurate him Governor. Born in a log cabin near London. Ohio, he failed to graduate from high school, worked on a railroad section gang. Later he worked for the Wright Brothers who were experimenting with flying machines, finally went to New Mexico and turned his talents to politics. Last May Albuquerque voted on recalling him as Mayor, decided against it, 6 to 1. His winning campaign slogan: "I ain't going to quit saying...
When, after 25 years, betting at race tracks was legalized in California last year, sportsmen all over the State were in a dither to start a track. Cineman Hal Roach (Our Gang Comedies), who plays better polo than most of his confreres, wanted one near Los Angeles. Dr. Charles H. Strub, onetime dentist who made his fortune with a chain of painless extraction parlors and later owned the San Francisco baseball club, wanted one at San Francisco. But onetime Newsboy William P. Kyne got ahead of him with Bay Meadows at San Mateo, which last week ended its successful first...
When Gus Gennerich wheeled him up the ramp from the colonnade into the new office building. President Roosevelt was beaming with happy expectation. So were the 120 members of the "gang," as Louis Howe calls the White House office force. They were delighted to have a wholly air-conditioned building to save them from the summer's heat; delighted with the roomy basement offices extending out under the lawn and surrounding a little sunken court with a fountain in its centre; delighted that in place of the beautiful but useless McKim dome over the old waiting room, their palace...
...nearly finished one of the most spectacularly successful manhunts in U. S. history. The hunt had cost the lives of three Federal agents, six local officers. But it had made the Government feared by criminals throughout the land. As 1934 began John Dillinger was leading as ruthless a gang of desperadoes as the Midwest had ever known. The Government met ruthlessness with ruthlessness. First Dillinger man to go down was Jack Klutas, shot near Chicago on Jan. 6. Herbert Youngblood followed him to death in March. Federal men got Dillinger himself in July. One month later Homer Van Meter...
When the Baiata gang stepped into Lincoln Life the biggest stockholder was Harmey B (for nothing) Hill, who stayed on as board chairman. Supposedly ignorant of the plot, he was nevertheless ousted by the authorities along with the Baiata regime. Last week newshawks found him still at his office, a quid in his cheek, a book on his desk called Why Worry? What did he have to say? "I'll have plenty to say?when the time comes...