Word: m
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Field Work. In Dorchester, Mass., Robert Rogers, arrested for robbery after an 80-m.p.h. chase by police, asked reporters to hush the whole thing up, explained: "I'm studying to take the police exams...
Unmoved. Another of the boys was in trouble last week-for a brief moment. Former City Councilman Joseph M. Scannell went on trial in Suffolk Superior Court charged with attempted shakedown. The prosecution said he had demanded $3,000 from a man who wanted a license to run a water-taxi service from a Congress Street dock to Logan Airport. Cherub-cheeked Joe, who holds down a $5,200-a-year job as a construction inspector for the Curley-controlled city housing authority, pleaded nolo contendere (I ain't sayin' a word...
Franz Czisch refused to protest the election. "It is no good," he said. "Even if Konrad is removed I would not continue the job. The people have spoken." Charles M. La Follette, former Congressman from Indiana, now Military Governor of Würt-temburg-Baden, ordered an immediate investigation, expressed "grave concern...
...Diego when it is finished. She has taken up painting. What does she think of opera today? "Music is an art," she says. "It's not a yelling business, or a ballyhoo business. It was an art the way we used to do it. Today, I'm afraid it is different . . . It may be that the whole thing is due to the times. The times are hysterical and yell...
...Bert Lytell, also a Negro and more noted for shiftiness than for a punch. But after the sixth round, Darthard looked in terrible shape. His manager tried questions again and got only a thick-tongued reply: "All I know is I'm fighting in Milwaukee." Then Darthard began tossing crazily on his stool and complaining that his head ached. He slumped over, mumbling incoherrently. They put him on a stretcher and carried him, unconscious, into a dressing room...