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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Victor. Only national figure to emerge from the California election was Columnist Westbrook Pegler. Fortnight ago the ex-sports writer landed in Los Angeles and began sending out appalled columns: "This community lives under ether and utters weird cries in its waking dreams." Westbrook Pegler was alarmed, not because a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: North, South, East, West | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Last week a car speeding from Cicero crashed into a telephone pole, its windows shattered by bullets, a bloody corpse at its wheel. The man was Edward J. O'Hare, president of the National Jockey Club, president of Sportsman's Park track (once owned by Capone). In Cicero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Hoodlum | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

He reached his hand into St. Louis, Newark, Atlantic City. He spread his power over the newborn labor rackets. He built a $65,000 walled fortress in Florida on Palm Island, near Miami. He turned up at theatres, thick lips puckered, flanked by watchful bodyguards. Honest men patted him gingerly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Hoodlum | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

More rigorous than in Great Britain itself, Canadian censorship was comparable only to the strict wartime supervision of the press in France. Under its sweeping regulations the Minister of National Defense had power to take over all communications. Forbidden was any "adverse or unfavorable statement . . . likely to prejudice the defense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Canadian Secrecy | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

For ten weeks no correspondent has seen the Prime Minister. Only official statements about the war that Canadians hear regularly are broadcast by an anonymous spokesman of the Department of National Defense. In a dull, flat, impersonal monotone he tells the public what its Government is doing.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Canadian Secrecy | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

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