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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some 150 Manhattan speakeasies paid Down-Shaker Harris some $25,000 over a period of several weeks. He played the game at both ends, often telephoning to local Prohibition headquarters to "squeal" on proprietors he had found obdurate...
...flesh in his late forties. Hotel managers fawned on him, because he owned a hotel himself. Newspaper editors disliked to call him "gambler" when he got into the news. The New York World used to euphemize and call him an "operator," knowing well that many another citizen gambled as often though perhaps not so daringly as Rothstein. He won a few hundred "grand" on this year's World's Series-a contest which he was said to have "fixed" in 1919. He was supposed to have "shot the works" (bet all he had) on Hoover's election...
Curious friends have often been anxious to know whether the Vagabond goes into hibernation during the months that intervene before a second term opens or whether he remains about the college to haunt the scones of his former glory. To such unimaginative souls he can quote Shakespeare that "There are more things in Heaven and earth Horation, than are dreamt of in your philosophy" and the Vagabond would have little right to his claims of superior knowledge if he had not managed to discover enough of the more pleasant kind to keep him occupied during the leisure period...
...operation, during which 28 denominations have been supplied with a central means of letting their combined views be known, the Federal Council should not have emphasized its history or have made much of Secretary Dr. Charles Stedman MacFarland whose messages, rolled out in such mimeographic multiplicity, have so often informed the U. S. that the Federal Council favors this and views that with alarm...
...story: Ernestine ("Tini") Rossler was an Austrian, born in Prague. But she lived her first years in Verona in the soldiers' barracks. The father was a "roughneck" but the mother was a lady, tired always, with poverty and childbearing. Tini herself was always hungry, used to skip school often to go to the circus people in the marketplace where she cleaned monkey cages in exchange for food. Soldiers change their stations often. It was in Graz that the Rosslers bought a decrepit piano for a dollar and Tini mended it with string and sealing wax; in a Graz convent...