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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like Murderer Robert Irwin, who telephoned the Herex last year to confess the killing of Manhattan Model Veronica Gedeon, Suspects Kolesiak and Guerrieri got no chance to talk to anyone, even Chicago police, until their statements had been liberally smeared over the newly tabloid pages of the Herex. Staff men spirited them from one hotel room to another, grilled them with the help of a State fire marshal assigned by Governor Horner. Suspect Guerrieri posed for the Herex front page tipping an empty gasoline can over an old towel, to show "How It Was Done." While the Tribune frantically pursued...
After the first round of medal play over Oakmont's tricky, rain-soaked course, one of the arguments was stilled. Ellsworth Vines got an 86, had no chance of being included among the 64 low scorers who qualified for the six rounds of match-play elimination. Tyro Vines would have promptly driven back to Pasadena (or perhaps on to the national tennis matches at Forest Hills) were it not for the fact that he had taken along a young Southern California tank-town actor named Pat Abbott to keep him company on his trans continental motor trip. Pat Abbott...
...union was founded in 1900 among garment workers in Manhattan, most of them immigrants. It taught them English and unionism. It soon found that its members, some of them cultured refugees from the old country, had unusual zeal for learning. In 1917 the young union started an education department, got famed Historian Charles A. Beard as consultant, opened a night-time Workers' "University" in Manhattan's Washington Irving High School, to teach labor doctrine and American history. Today I. L. G. W. U.'s education department spends $200,000 a year, has some 22,000 members enrolled...
George MacDonald and Henry L. Doherty have long had much in common. They have known each other 30 years. Both got rich in utilities. Both have grey-white hair, blue-grey eyes, and are the same height. George is 63, Henry is 68. George says they have been so close that he used to get Henry's love letters, Henry his business letters. Last week George and Henry had a new common denominator- Florida and Bahama real estate...
...final desparation Thomas Leary hit upon one final scheme. He attempted to got President F. D. Roosevelt to come to Cambridge and make a speech to purge his opponent; Leary was sure his opponent would walk to victory...