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...rainy night last week in Manhattan, Emil Nizich, 26, dock worker and small-time racketeer, was on his way to a gym for a game of basketball. He was shot three times from behind, left dead in the gutter. The killer made his getaway. An hour and a half later, a few blocks away, young Joseph Moran was checking the unloading of a ten-ton truck. A stranger stepped in out of the rain. "Who's Joe Moran around here?" he asked. "That's me," said Moran cheerfully. The stranger shot three times, killed Moran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Speaking of Crime | 2/17/1941 | See Source »

...What do you think of the election?" I asked the Man In The Gutter. "Have you made any wagers or aren't you Barton on the outcome...

Author: By Hu FLUNG Huey occ., | Title: Roosevelt Win With Willkie Landon Second Predicts Huey | 11/5/1940 | See Source »

Hitler is merely an ex-guttersnipe, a mediocre little man with a mediocre mind, acting just as any fanatical, substandard person would act. . . . The fool cannot even see that he is destroying himself and his people. . . . Hitler is just a dirty gutter fighter. . . . We should set American science to work devising the most hellish instruments of defense the mind can conceive. . . . If a beneficent God, as we believe, cast an archangel into eternal fire, why should we be choosy about what we may have to do to Hitler the Horrible and his horde...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Traveler v. Fiihrer | 6/17/1940 | See Source »

...welcome to the Street. The market turned on its side (at around 115 on the Dow-Jones industrials average) and lay still. Wrote New York Post Columnist Samuel Grafton: "The 'better technical position' assumed by the investor consists of his lying flat on his back in the gutter with one foot on the curb, his eyes closed and his mouth open. In this position he neither buys nor sells, and so is described as 'steadier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WALL STREET: New Financing Adjourned | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

...paper with "uncivilized" editorial comment on the Fuehrer. This time the object of their fury, is an appeal to the American people to devise the "most hellish instruments of defense" against "this creature Hitler," and "ex-guttersnipe," a "mediocre little man," a "fanatical, sub-standard person," a "dirty gutter fighter," and "infamous beast." In Nazi eyes, it is uncivilized to "defend the eternal verities," to "meet the diabolical challenge of "Hitler the Horrible and his horde...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FUROR BOSTONICUS | 6/5/1940 | See Source »

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