Word: link
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gallons of beer were seized, four workmen arrested, a major source of supply for speakeasies cut off. Mr. McCampbell charged that the city police interfered with his agents' preliminary efforts to get evidence in the slummy neighborhood. Unsuccessful were the Government's first attempts to link the brewery's ownership to William ("Big Bill") Dwyer and Owen ("Owney") Madden. (To smoke out the owners of a $1,000,000 brewery in the fashionable Sutton Place neighborhood, which Dry agents raided in May, the U. S. last fortnight started proceedings to confiscate the real estate...
...scholar, Ghost Man James knows how to link antiquity and horror: many of his spooks are harmlessly buried till a blundering antiquarian stirs them up. If the meddler survives, his invariable rule thereafter is to let sleeping ghosts lie. James sets the scenes of his stories with cunning realism, hearty plausibility; he never needs Bohemia or Walpurgis Night. Imperceptibly the shades thicken; something (it might be a rat) scuffles in a corner; something (it might be the wind) puffs out the curtains; and then...
...proudly up the Illinois River on a three-day trip from St. Louis. When it reached Peoria it pushed the big steel barge it had brought up to the city's new $400.000 wharf and warehouse. Whistles tooted, bands played, citizens cheered to celebrate the opening of one more link in the Government's vast mid-continent waterway system...
...Last week President Hoover received and turned over to the Press another report from his National Commission on Law Observance & Enforcement, which has sunk into anticlimactic obscurity since it dealt with Prohibition. Its findings dealt with prosecutions. As all the world knows it discovered an evil link between criminal organizations and local politics. Declared the report: "In some cases campaign funds are derived from what amounts to licensed violations of the law." It found that the grand jury had ceased to be an agency for real criminal investigation, advised that it be done away with as a source of indictments...
...fancy office. He prides himself on keeping his desk clean, never appearing busy. He has taste. He likes the opera and dis likes tobacco. In both his $1,000,000 Long Branch, N. J. home and his $1,200,000 Paris residence are pipe-organs, tapestries. A link between Mr. Parson and the Founder is Charles Sumner Woolworth, 74, now chairman of the company his brother founded. He lives in Scranton, is seldom in Manhattan except for board meetings...