Word: ot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jules W. ("Nicky") Arnstein (onetime convict for complicity m a $5,000,000 bond theft; husband ot Actress Fanny Brice) visited Chicago, registered at a hotel as "J. W. Arnold," was arrested just on general principles," was released when victims of recent Chicago confidence games recognized him as not being their deceiver. He explained he had come to confer with his onetime cellmate at Leavenworth Penitentiary, Tim" Murphy, about a flashlight signal device in which they are interested...
...Conferred at breakfast with Chairman Francis E. Warren ot che Senate Appropriations Committee, Chairman Martin B. Madden of the House Appropriations Committee, and a group of Senators and Representatives; discussed the Mississippi flood situation. Senators present included William E. Borah of Idaho and Edwin S. Broussard of Louisiana...
...bills are exorbitant. It is well that as sane and char eyed a man as MacDonald should have reminded America that the working man gets a bank balance or a Ford in return for his deprivation. His words more than counters balance the drivel with which Judge; Jr., ot al unintentionally lend point to the convictions of Mr. Boreh, Senator Pepper, and the late John L. Sullivan...
...Admiral Degony of the French Navy, however, who credits the State Department with the most amazing and closely reasoned statecraft. He links Nicaragua with American imperialism, the Panama Canal, possible war with Japan, and the late disarmament proposals. In his article, "La Canal du Nicaragua ot La Strategie Americaine" in the "Revue des Deux Mondes", March 15, he traces point by point the true basis for the administration's disarmament proposals. They were not put forth, it appears, to throw the public scent off Central America nor in a moment of misdirected pacifist feeling...
Perhaps it was because they had heard that arch-Fundamentalist Dr. Clarence E. N. Macartney of Philadelphia was coming among them, to fill the sacred shoes ot old-school Dr. Maitland Alexander at the First Presbyterian Church (TIME, Feb. 21). Perhaps they wanted to assert themselves before the younger lion of righteousness arrived, or perhaps to prepare for him a fitting atmosphere of holiness. Or perhaps they were truly indignant with no thought of Pittsburgh as the northern capital of Fundamentaland. Whatever the reason, ten Pittsburgh ministers left no churchman dubious, about the spirit that was in them when, last...