Word: number
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...likes to carry a huge bankroll. The Hines money is supposed to come from insurance and contracting business run by Sons James Jr. and Philip (Harvard). Tom Dewey last week set out to prove that a great deal of it came from a regular levy on Harlem's numbers bankers. Leaning toward the jury box and talking in his customary confidential tones, Prosecutor Dewey explained to a blue ribbon jury,* consisting of one Democrat, four Republicans, two Independents, five gentlemen who had not bothered to register, the basic facts of the numbers game. In this simple lottery a player...
...Soya Strait, just above the northernmost island of Japan, the Soviet provision ship Refrigerator No, 1 was halted by the Japanese, her captain and crew thrown into jail. Japanese authorities questioned their Red captives about the number and equipment of Soviet armed forces facing Manchukuo. To force answers they used the dread Oriental bastinado, beat the soles of the Reds with thin strips of bamboo. On top of this ancient torture, a favorite in China for thousands of years, the Japanese produced electric wires, sparked and shocked the Russians' bleeding soles...
Lambeth Palace, in the southeast part of London, is one of the official residences of the Archbishop of Canterbury. Not from this pile but from the narrow, grubby street nearby came the name of England's present dance fad, the greatest in years-the Lambeth Walk. A number in a successful musicomedy, Me and My Girl, which opened last winter, the Lambeth Walk by last week was being played to a frazzle on the radio, whistled to death in the streets, performed every fourth dance in London hotels and clubs. The dance-an easy, arm-in-arm walk, mock...
...were closely related, and it was later proved that the disease originates in cattle, goats and swine, and is transmitted to man. Malta fever and Brucellosis are commonly known in the U. S. as undulant fever. First reported U. S. epidemic occurred in Phoenix, Ariz, in 1922, and the number of cases has steadily in creased. Last week the U. S. Public Health Service announced that 1938 promises to be a peak year for undulant fever, with almost 2,000 cases reported to date, twice as many as in the same period of 1937. Hardest hit is the southwest cattle...
...Then, instead of a healthy, he-man holler, there emerges only a high, husky whisper. Before doctors discovered how to prevent this condition by the use of throat-tubes and toxoids* such stenosis (contraction) of the larynx was a frequent aftereffect of diphtheria and scarlet fever. Today, the largest number of laryngeal deformities is caused by accidents, not by disease...