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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bigwigs. Before their own Grand Jury the Federals began by reviewing the case of one Joel D. Kerper, "society bootlegger," whose headquarters were raided on July 20. The examination of 'Legger Kerper's records disclosed the names of many famed Philadelphians, presumably bigwigs who had dickered with him. Among these were: D. B. Cummins Catherwood, banker; Gardner Cassat, banker & broker; Roland R. Foulke, attorney & active churchman; Maxwell R. Marston, onetime (1923) national amateur golf champion; Major Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, author, lecturer, explorer, founder of the "Athletic Christianity" movement. Subpoenas were scattered far and wide...
Only once has a Fascist mob lynched an assailant of Signor Benito Mussolini. The single instance occurred at Bologna (TIME, Nov. 8, 1926). There the Dictator sat implacable and silent, in his limousine, after a bullet had ripped through his sash of the Grand Cordon of the Order of St. Maurice and St. Lazarus, barely skirting the abdomen...
...were of secondary interest beside the fact that Eleutherios Venizelos, "Grand Old Man of Crete," founder of the Greek Republic, and now Prime Minister, was also down with dengue fever, after having just won the Greek elections (TIME, Sept...
...96th annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, at Glasgow last week, was a grand concourse of ideas on chemistry, physics, psychology, mathematics, geology. So specialized and abstruse were most of the papers read in 13 sectional meetings that the 3,000 scientists attending (from all the continents) were eager to get the Glasgow newspapers for popularized reports of what was happening in fields other than their own. However there was a strong thread of thought running through all the discussions: the application of science in industry...
...Grand Duke Alexander Michaelovich Romanov, ardent spiritualist, will tour the U. S., lecturing. The Grand Duke says he has conferred with the spirit of his cousin and brother-in-law, the late Tsar Nicholas II, who told him the Soviet regime in Russia would collapse...