Word: mr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When George Meyers of Lakewood, N. J. one day last year asked a Philadelphia friend for $25 to use in his upholstery-cleaning business, the friend introduced him to Herman Petrillo. Mr. Petrillo had a better idea. He would give George Meyers some big money "-$500 real or $2.500 counterfeit"-if only he would see that one Ferdinand Alfonsi met an accidental death. Cleaner Meyers told his story to the Secret Service, was hired as an informer. Last week he told his findings in a Philadelphia court, where Mr. Petrillo and two women were on trial for running a racket...
...Alfonsi did die, of arsenic poisoning. So did one Philip Ingrao, 18. So, the Government contended, did at least ten other Philadelphians, whose grasping relatives had insured them for a total of nearly $100,000, and given Herman Petrillo the job of making the policies pay out. Thoroughly professional, Mr. Petrillo, said witnesses, shopped around for cheap killers, worked not only with arsenic but with sandbags, faked hit-&-run accidents, a lead pipe so ingeniously designed that it could bash in a skull to look as if the victim had fallen downstairs...
Association of Patriotic American Citizens is what Mr. Reynolds called his movement. The button he will issue spells out VINDICATOR. A red-white-&-blue feather in the hat is a further insignia. Last week Senator Reynolds said he figured on 1,000,000 by June for a convention at St. Louis. He thought 5,000,000 would join eventually. Said he: "If I am selected to head the movement, I should be highly honored. This is a mass movement of Americans to restore America to Americans...
...Chamberlain, speaking in the House of Commons, served notice that Britain would tolerate no "threat to vital interests of France, from whatever quarter it came." Any threat, he said, would "evoke the immediate cooperation of this country." It was the strongest pledge of aid to France yet made by Mr. Chamberlain...
...dictatorships than the report last week that President Roosevelt had told a Senate Committee that the U. S. defense frontiers were in France (see p. 12). The French and British press shouted with joy, while the totalitarian press of Germany and Italy outdid all previous efforts in denouncing Mr. Roosevelt and all he stood...