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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nebraska is the second State in which dead bank robbers are worth more than live ones*.Texas bankers go further, offer $5,000 per corpse. This sum has been paid five times in five years. Last April two Negroes were lured into bank robbery at Fort Worth so that four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Bounty | 10/27/1930 | See Source »

> Last week it was announced (by Hearstpapers) that a subscription fund aiming at $1,000,000 was being raised in the underworld to rid Chicago of Police Commissioner John H. Alcock, appointed after the Lingle killing to rid the city of gangsters.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Lingle, Darrow | 10/13/1930 | See Source »

Africa Speaks (Columbia). In spite of the many patient and enthusiastic photographers who have trundled through Africa, no definite cinema of the jungle has yet been made. Probably the nearest approach to such a picture would be a composite of the best shots of such good travelogs as this?jungle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Oct. 6, 1930 | 10/6/1930 | See Source »

Even the title of Robinson's latest poem has a tragic irony. Nightingale is the name of the piece's villain; the glory of the Nightingales comes to a sad end. As the poem opens, middleaged, destitute, half-starved Malory, onetime bacteriologist, now a tramp, is walking country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hoosier's Maine* | 9/22/1930 | See Source »

That's The Woman is the latest offering of Playwright Bayard Veiller (The Trial of Mary Dugan, The 13th Chair). In the first scene spectators are apprised that a young socialite (Gavin Muir) will indubitably go to the electric chair for the murder of his best friend unless he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Sep. 15, 1930 | 9/15/1930 | See Source »

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