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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lazarus: "I intend to be as straightforward with you as you have been considerate with me. Basing my conclusions on years of observation. I regret to say that there is probably no group in this city, proportionate to its members, that supplies us with more criminal business than the local Filipino colony. It is no compliment to the predominant race that most crimes committed by Filipinos have as background intimate relations with white girls. Jealousy between rivals for the affections of the same girl leads to assaults, knifings, and shootings; a desire to provide gifts for the objects of their...
...Pottery Peoples" who first overran India, Persia and Mesopotamia about 6000 B. C. A sharply emerging concept of personal property was indicated by clay seals. One seal portrayed a huge, vulture-like bird hovering over a stag, another a man and woman cowering before a serpent, no doubt a local variant of the Adam & Eve story. A seal found on Level Eleven depicted two men stirring a vat with long poles; the diggers took it to be the earliest known representation of a brewery...
...Oshkosh, Wis., Mrs. John Putzer, 41-year-old wife of a WPA worker, gave birth to her sixth pair of twins, won a pair of beds from a local cinemansion which had offered one bed to the mother of the first baby born after the opening of The Country Doctor. Said fruitful Mrs. Putzer, mother of 17: "We never pick names now until we know how many we're going to need...
...slaughtering and provisions business. Succeeding generations of Joneses and Laughlins have been cast with remarkable regularity in the mold of the founding partners. The Joneses went for steel, the Laughlins for culture. Founder Jones was already a bigwig in .he steel industry when Andrew Carnegie was a local telegraph boy. When Carnegie succeeded in delivering a message to Mr. "ones personally, Mr. Jones would tip him 25?. His son, Benjamin Franklin Jones Jr., was a crack steelman and J. & L.'s lead until his death in 1928. In his later years active command was in the hands...
SOUTH RIDING-Winifred Holtby-Macmillan ($2.50). Framework of this comprehensive chronicle of a modern Yorkshire town is the decisions of a county council on education, highways & bridges, public health etc. The story follows these administrative acts out into the lives of the local citizens. A workmanlike book, the posthumous novel of an author who died last September...