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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Judge Southern summoned a county grand jury and ordered Prosecutor Graves to keep hands off the evidence he had collected (including a sucker list of Kansas City's amateur gamblers complete with their credit connections). As Prosecutors Graves and McKittrick sat by, jaws hanging, Judge Southern snapped to the jury: "Gentlemen, the prosecuting attorney denies ... a general state of lawlessness exists.. .. It is certain that the prosecuting attorney has not prepared and will not be able to prepare evidence of a thing which he says does not exist. . . . The Attorney General tells me ... he has obtained no evidence...
...house canvass Many thought that the figures turned up then showed: 1) a decrease in population; 2) too many Russians to be religiously minded for Soviet comfort. No question regarding religious belief or disbelief will be asked in the present census, nor will Soviet citizens again be allowed to list themselves as prostitutes, lackeys or tramps. Soviet citizens will be occupationally grouped under broader terms. The classification for priests is "servitor of a cult"; for one who doesn't earn his living, "non-toiler"; for artists, writers etc.,' "members of a free profession...
Talkative Kenneth Collins talked himself into an advertising job with R. H. Macy & Co. in 1926 by reciting a list of jobs he had never held. His chief asset was knowing a good thing when he saw it, and two of his good things, Margaret Fishback and Bernice Fitzgibbon, coined the glib slogans for which Macy's soon became famed: "Nature in the Roar," "Babies are Hard to Bear," "It's Smart to be Thrifty." By 1929 Kenneth Collins was an executive vice president of the Manhattan store; for that job his top salary was variously reported...
Rangy, bespectacled Good Worker Henry, who is too modest to list himself in Who's Who, almost perfectly fulfills SEC Chairman William O. Douglas' definition of the disinterested professional director (see below...
...other English literary journal. Its first issue printed T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land, probably the most influential modern poem. It was the first English periodical to publish the work of Marcel Proust, Paul Valery, Jean Cocteau, many another since-famed major European writer. The list of its contributors-James Joyce, Thomas Mann, Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Pound, W. B. Yeats. Robert Graves-is an honor roll of contemporary letters...