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...Gary: ''Rush all the police and guns you can get here-Dillinger's loose!" It took more than an hour to find keys to release the imprisoned jailers. Toward noon Deputy Blunk called by long distance to say that the jailbreakers had released him and the garageman near Peotone, Ill., about 25 miles away, giving them $4 for carfare and a cigaret each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Whittler's Holiday | 3/12/1934 | See Source »

...steam pipe to summon the heirs & heiresses for obsequious ministrations, keeps them on tenterhooks by changing her will every so often. The grandson (Paul Guilfoyle) and his fiancee (Linda Watkins) are frustrated when the matriarch will not let him go to medical school; the granddaughter, prevented from marrying her garageman, sneaks off for weekends with him, contracts a baby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 6, 1933 | 11/6/1933 | See Source »

...wife of a small-town garageman, whose only daughter has just died, suddenly hates her husband when she discovers that he has bought a 100-lb. sack of sugar with trade-coupons that came with her daughter's coifin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Americana | 9/25/1933 | See Source »

...stables used to be. Not until after one o'clock did the garage proprietor bother to go down to where the strange pair worked at their accounts. At the bottom of the subcellar stairs, visible by the light of one yellow bulb glowing dismally in the office, the garageman found Old Man Ridley. His curly white beard was torn out in great patches, one ear was gone, his head had been bashed many times with the swivel stool. In the ghostly underground quiet, Lee Weinstein was found. He had been shot seven times in the stomach, chest, neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Crime-oj-the-Week | 5/22/1933 | See Source »

...Said Garageman Peters last week: "Before I play along with the racket boys I'm going to play along with the police and District Attorney. I think what they say is true-that if business men would cooperate with the authorities and not cooperate with the racketeers, then the rackets could be stamped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Crime-of-the-Week | 2/13/1933 | See Source »

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