Word: pasted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chicago's criminals continued flourishing last week, such criminals as whoever it was that haled Footballer John C. Acher of Northwestern University out of his automobile on Michigan Avenue one night and pumped two slugs into him for scraping a fender as he drove past; and hardbitten Joe Saltis, gun-toting beer gangster, who was still at large last week after a six-month "search" by police who know him well...
...moved through the evening streets firing a silent pistol at whatever human targets took his fancy in the house windows or under streetlights. A contractor was first to die. Then a doctor was slain in his office. A railroad detective was riddled in the freight yards. A bullet smashed past a girl at a drugstore counter. The "phantom" also went shooting in Council Bluffs, Iowa, across the Missouri River. His weapon made only a muffled chug in the night as his lead whizzed after pedestrians and into people's homes...
...bugaboo of tariff was their concern. They contended that present tariff rates were flooding the country with imported merchandise, that thousands of U. S. laborers were therefore out of work. This claim naturally hinged on statistics. There was a fat volume of them, gathered quietly in Manhattan during the past six months. Figures showing the increase of imported wares between 1920 and 1927 were copious and astonishing. Glass products had mounted from $14,000,000 to $30,000,000; clay products from $15,000,000 to $23,000,000; boots and shoes from $700,000 to $5,000,000. Photo...
...Past citations still current: Dry Martini, Excess Baggage, The Night Watch, Kriemhild's Revenge, The Patriot, The Crowd, His Private Life...
...been asked to pick in advance the 24 teams which would emerge victorious from a list of 24 scheduled football games. The Court observed that the chances against success in making this guess were 282, 429, 536, 481 to one. Nonetheless several satisfied Britons have guessed right, during the past season, thus winning prizes...