Word: latters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Organization and origin of last week's raid read like an early cinema scenario. In the latter part of 1936, a Narcotics Bureau agent-whom Major Williams refused to name last week on the grounds that it might cause reprisals-arrested a Chinese on a minor charge in Seattle. The culprit talked freely about a much more interesting compatriot named Chin Joo Hip in Butte, Mont. Chin Joo Hip, a wrinkled, cadaverous tongman with drooping white mustaches, received a call from the agent, who pretended to be the nephew of a rich Pacific Coast gangster. Presently they were fast...
...Barnes was incensed by the Museum's statement that "a second version, and a slightly smaller picture" of Les Grandes Baigneuses was in the Barnes Foundation collection. In response he roared that the Barnes Bathers had been painted eight years before the Widener Bathers, that the latter was "monotonous, dry and lusterless" by comparison. Cracked "Argyrol" Barnes...
...Bees' new head-man expressed satisfaction with the team's showing in the latter half of the past season. With no specific deals up his sleeve, he will leave today for the Milwaukee minor league convention accompanied by President Robert Quinn and latter attend the National League trade-fast...
...director of the gymnasium, pointed out, however, that the main attraction is the calisthenic class held every afternoon from 5 to 6 o'clock. In the class Cox puts the men through the same exercises that the crew men take, and it is expected that the latter will soon report to the class...
...these came quickly and halted the impending battle. He disposed of the case by returning the $11 to the scalper and causing the latter's hasty exit from the Yard...