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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wrist watch belonging to one of the robbed houses in a pawn shop. Quickly he summoned a cordon of police, rushed at dawn into the home of Toyoshi Nakamura, a young chauffeur. Faced by scowling gendarmerie, Chauffeur Nakamura confessed all. His duties kept him busy from 5 p. m. until dawn, he said. He had robbed the geisha houses for money with which to attend dance halls and amuse himself in his spare time...
...have acquired his social doctrine at Harvard, whence he was graduated in 1909. He was an early student in the Harvard Theatrical Workshop of Prof. George Pierce Baker, now Dean of the Yale Drama School. Since 1913 he has taught American, English and European Literature and Drama at M...
...late great Harry Houdini. He was succeeded last week by Hardeen, brother of Houdini. Other prominent national members include the following amateurs: Artist Harlan Tarbell of Chicago, Patent Attorney J. C. Wobensmith of Philadelphia, Royal C. Vilas of Bridgeport, Conn. The New York chapter is headed by Lawyer Bernard M. L. Ernst. Its officers include Leo Rullman, acting Deputy Collector of the Port of New York, and Dentist Lionel Hartley...
...Dean's life work, the Back-to-Africa idea is not new. Paul Cuffee returned twelve slaves to West Africa, and their Liberia, founded 1822, was the first great movement. Bishop H. M. Turner, until Booker Washington silenced him in the '90s, advocated all U. S. Negroes to follow. Captain Harry Dean's call, issued at the turn of the Century, did not reach the race in a broadcast manner and was even less successful than the short-lived Black Star Line of Jamaica's Marcus ("Black Moses") Garvey, who was deported from...
...dear!' Aurelia would exclaim. 'I'm half dead with shopping!' Then, if it didn't happen to be one of the days for hair dressing, manicuring and facial beautifying, they would go to the movies and stay until after five. ... 'I do wish I could find time to take French or music or something...