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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...J. M. GRIMM...
...radioman practiced the syndicate's secret code. Months prior, mysterious aerial buzzes had been picked up by a Coast Guard cutter. The intricate code had been deciphered, its source determined by radio compass. Thus had Prohibition men located the syndicate headquarters. New Jersey's Prohibition-Administrator William J. Calhoun, superviser of the syndicate roundup, boasted that by eavesdropping on this telltale radio he had for months checked every pint smuggled in. Unperturbed by the 10,000 cases of liquor whisked in every week, Administrator Calhoun had shrewdly plotted his concerted raid. Following up radio clues, he had learned...
GUSTAV LINDENTHAL Jersey City, N. J...
...shouted welcome.† He was Friend Henry Ford. This was only Stage-Setter Ford's prolog. Proudly he led Mr. Edison to a building nearby, the inventor's oldtime laboratory, every plank and gadget of which had been brought to Dearborn, Mich., from Menlo Park, N. J. Ruminantly chewing tobacco as he inspected, Edison scuffed the dirt floor with his toe. "Why, Henry's even got that damn New Jersey clay here," he marveled. There later was to be staged the feature performance-Inventor Edison working by oil lamp over his old bench, tinkering with...
Harvard's star half-miler of several years back, J. N. Watters, was quite naturally called "Soapy" ever since his Exeter days, and every man with a name like Rhodes might just as well be christened "Dusty" at birth by his parents. All freely given names are not so obvious as these two, however. Bill McGeehan, probably the dean of American nicknamers, has almost single-handed run what he calls the cauliflower industry into the ground with his nicknames and epithets. "Horizontal" Joe Beckett, Phil Scott, the Leaning Tower of London, Signor Campolo, the Gyrating Gyraffe of the Andes...