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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Michael Abbatemarco, supposedly Uale's successor in Brooklyn, has been heard to scorn bodyguards with the fatalistic philosophy that if he was going to be killed he could not avoid it. Last week he quit a card game in Bath Beach, Brooklyn, at 4 A. M. He drove away in a glossy coupe. One half hour later the car was stopped, the motor running. Michael sprawled limply over the wheel. Three bullets were in his head, one in his chest. A shadowy figure walked off across a vacant lot, dropped an automatic pistol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Yale Echoes | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

Senator Borah's ursine figure and mighty voice have lately been seen and heard by great and demonstrative masses of the electorate. He it was who put a firm quietus upon the "farm revolt" at the Kansas City convention. He it is who is reckoned as Nominee Hoover's most formidable stump spokesman. A fortnight ago he appeared in Minneapolis on the heels of Nominee Smith. Some 14,000 loudly cheering persons jammed into an auditorium to hear him pound at the Brown Derby's position on the Lakes-to-Sea waterway and the farm problem. He also defended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Robbed | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

...they drifted back from bagging grouse in Scotland, London clubmen heard three new tales, current last week in four old clubs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Plank, Plank, Plank | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

...never .heard you whistle during the whole War!" cried the friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Hindenburg's Whistle | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

Tale-Teller Herbert von Hindenburg, added: "My uncle was not boasting. I think it is true that no one has seen him nervous or heard him whistle, either as Feldmarschall or Reichspraesident...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Hindenburg's Whistle | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

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