Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bland at Chicago." And if TIME is not, history will be concerned with what happened at Chicago: That Bland led without any sort of organized support and that he failed of two-thirds [majority for the presidential nomination] because he was sold out when he refused to join the Gang. That, earlier, he refused to have anything to do with the campaign when he had found that he was in the hands of the man the Gang had selected as his manager. He not only refused to leave his farm, he refused to permit the telegraph company...
...summer prior, Mrs. Ilsley had had a young Negro chauffeur named George Crawford. For receiving stolen goods Crawford had served five years on a Virginia chain gang. About Middleburg he had been arrested for minor thefts but always released for lack of evidence. When some liquor disappeared from the Ilsley house, Mrs. Ilsley discharged...
ENCORE THE LONE WOLF-Louis Joseph Vance-Lippincott ($2). The Lanyards, father & son, turned respectable, fight a marauding gang...
...early afternoon, Correspondent J. D. Phillips of the New York Times stepped out on the balcony of his house on Avenida de los Presidentes in the Vedado residential section to enjoy the sunshine. A gang of Negroes, some with rifles, some with pistols was sitting on the top of a high bank on the opposite side. A car swung out of the gates of Principe Fortress, turned into the street and stopped. Two boys were pushed...
...years ago John ("Jake the Barber") Factor was fighting extradition to England on charges of having gulled Britons of some $5,000,000 (TIME, June 8, 1931). Hearing that Chicago kidnappers had marked him, he paid Chicago Gang Leader Alphonse Capone to tell them, "Lay off Jake Factor-or else. . . ." Last week, with Capone in jail, four men jumped out of a car on a Chicago street and grabbed Factor's anemic Son Jerome, 19, Northwestern University Junior. They wrote Factor, who is still at large, to get ready $50,000 in small bills or receive Jerome "in parts...