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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...M. GRIMM...
Four-thirty p. m. one day last week was a zero hour. When it came, 130 Federal Prohibition agents simultaneously launched 35 assaults along a 200-mile liquor front in the sea angle from the tip of Long Island to Atlantic City. Down they bore on hotels, road houses, garages, a Manhattan office building, a New Jersey mansion. Captured were 32 prisoners, hundreds of cases of good liquor. In mid-Manhattan a detachment entered a businesslike office where directors of a colossal liquor syndicate, said to have a monopoly of the metropolitan supply, were known to meet, plan operations, declare...
PROSECUTOR CARPENTER "I'm a Sunday-school man," blood (TIME, June 17). When the defense succeeded in moving the trial of the 16 defendants-young union textile workers including six Communists from the North -from hysterical Gastonia to calmer Charlotte, the mob subsided. Radical Labor, muttering that here was another Sacco-Vanzetti case, had less to say. Melodrama was the introduction. A bulky something was wheeled in before the jury. The covering was whipped off to reveal a wax dummy of the slaughtered man, staring, pallid. Madness brought an interval. When a juryman, brooding long on hell and damnation...
...across the sky of America as an eternal sign that justice has been done." He asserted that the union headquarters in Gastonia had been "not a cross-section of hell, but a whole section of hell! There was immorality there. Yes, immorality! Hugging and kissing in public. I'm oldfashioned. I'm a Sunday school man." Lawyer Carpenter told the jury he was defending Gastonia. "where the dove of peace hovers around the vine-clad door and the kindly light of the autumn sun kisses the curly hair of happy children." Lawyer Carpenter called the mill-owners...
...Haven, Conn., Oct. 25--Head Coach Stevens of the Yale football team, interviewed here yesterday on the Carnegie report on athletics, said, "Heaven knows I wish a few more athletes would come to Yale, and I'm sure we haven't been going out and signing them...