Word: ifs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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If police surmises were correct, Badman Nannery had two disappointments last week. Added to the failure of the Naval Base raid was the frustration of a jailbreak plot at Sing Sing, in which Pal Ryan was embroiled. Warden Lewis Edward Lawes of Sing Sing keeps the most desperate of his...
¶ At Buffalo, N. Y., seven bandits, masked with white handkerchiefs, interrupted a dinner party long enough to obtain jewels valued at $400,000 from assembled socialites. Mrs. Philip Metz, daughter of Norman Edward Mack. New York's Democratic National Committeeman, lost $60,000 worth. Mrs. Raymond Allen Van Clief...
Quickly the stockmarket bounded up somewhat from its depths. As if surprised at this reaction, Secretary Mellon feebly protested that his new tax program had not been proclaimed to boost drooping security values. He explained that, long in the making, the reduction was offered as a demonstration of the Government...
"If Chicago be the forward-thinking city its citizens believe, its War monument will take the form of a maniac. . . ."
Even Republican Generalissimo Smoot voted against adjournment. He cried: "My duty is to stand by the bill and if God gives me strength, that is what I'll do. If it kills me, all right. . . . If the Senate wants to adjourn I'd say THANK GOD but I will never...