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At Harry's Arcade Spa, whose floors have felt the tread of Roosevelts and Rockefellers, pinball was termed "good clean fun," "necessary for morale," "harmless amusement."' "If the game is banned," said one habitue, "you will get a vicious ring of backroom machines and gambling. The ban will probably boomerang...
The Commissioner of Markets said that racketeering in the poultry market was reputedly "protected" by Hines, but this could not be proved. Neither could the District Attorney prove that Hines got $500 a month for permitting professional gambling in his Monongahela Club (political headquarters) in Harlem, or that Charles ("Lucky...
Despite ransom messages and mysterious telephone calls, despite the appearance of several of Jean De Koven's traveler's checks, obviously forged, the French police stubbornly refused to believe that a kidnapping could occur in present-day France. Petit Parisien headlined its story: "American Dancer Runs Away and...
There is in Leverett House a Dance Committee which we think, shows singular naivete. They have arranged the House Dance for December 6th, which every boy knows is the night when corks can be popped in the open to celebrate the return of American Independence. As we see it the...
With little prejudice Mrs. Peabody obtained the statistics of pre-prohibition drunkenness. Ninety per cent, she found, were intoxicated by beer which Congress may legalize again. With logical reasoning one infers that if everyone, including the innocent children, must drink several gallons a week, since the mathematical odds favor the...