Word: michaels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Federal agent. Terrified bystanders hardly noticed the killers as they fled from the second largest gangster killing on record.* Not until last month did Federal or State officers have a shred of courtworthy evidence in the Union Station case. Then police picked up a sniveling little gangster named Michael LaCapra, questioned him about the death last July of John Lazia, late first lieutenant of Democratic Boss Thomas J. ("Big Tom") Pendergast (TIME, July 23). To their surprise La Capra began talking about the Union Station killings. By last week they had pumped the following story...
...Congress gave its full consent. By then Hetch Hetchy was a year past its real turning point. In July 1912 Engineer John R. Freeman drew up what have remained the basic plans for the system. Few months later San Francisco got for its City Engineer a vigorous Irishman named Michael Maurice O'Shaughnessy, already well known for his work in California and Hawaii. The War and work on Hetch Hetchy began together. But nothing was to stop the slow growth of the project through the next two decades. As time passed there were the usual impatient charges of waste...
...Intercollegiate League championship. Though little is said about it, and Coach John F. Carr, Jr. '28 does not stop to think about it, the eleven this year has one of the best chances in history to win the championship. Jack Carr, who is also adeptly running Mr. James Michael Curley's campaign in Cambridge, has been gradually building up a squad of fine material. He is getting results. Take a look at the records of the "Intercollegiate Soccer Football Association of America...
...estimate of the quality of Mexican education was given in El Paso. Tex. last week by Rev. Michael Kenny, Jesuit, one-time regent of Loyola University's Law School. Returned from an investigation tour, he reported on Mexican sex education with special reference to the State of Tabasco, whose Governor is named Canabal. In Tabasco, according to Father Kenny, children are caused to learn about sex by viewing the matings of dogs, horses, cattle. In one case a bull was labeled "God," a cow "Virgin Mary." Said he: "Primary grade pupils in Tabasco were forced to strip naked, boys...
...Bronx, N. Y., Mrs. Shirley Lippmann gave orders for her newborn son to be inducted into the Hebrew faith according to prescribed ritual. Thirty minutes later hospital attendants laid on her pillow a baby boy neatly circumcised. Moaned Mrs. Lippmann: "That's not my Michael." Shrieked Mrs. Alfred Lyman from the next bed: "That's my Robert." Because the operation "irreparably altered their son's physical condition, repugnantly and contrary to the tenets of the Roman Catholic faith," Catholic Mr. and Mrs. Lyman brought suit for $75,000 against the Jewish hospital director, the Jewish mohel...