Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Philadelphia judge & jury last week awarded the electric chair to Herman Petrillo, 40, spaghetti salesman and "brains" of a murder-for-insurance syndicate alleged to have done away with four victims of arsenic poisoning on whose lives they had insurance (TIME, Feb. 13). After hearing the verdict, Herman Petrillo tried to slug the jury's forewoman, was dragged cursing from the courtroom. Judge Harry S. McDevitt ordered the arrest of Paul Petrillo (cousin) and the widow of a poisonee (two other widows were already in custody), and investigators began exhuming 70 bodies in graveyards of Pennsylvania, New Jersey...
Grim, grey-haired Dr. Bessie R. Burchett, a high-school Latin teacher in Philadelphia, mortally fears Jews, radicals, labor leaders. To defend herself, she used to carry two guns, a six-shooter in her handbag, an automatic strapped to her leg under her skirt. Once she brandished a pistol in a newsman's face, declared: "Those Communists will never take me alive." Disarmed by the Board of Education, she hired two bodyguards, scattered scarehead pamphlets by the thousands, tried to break up meetings of "Reds," invited teachers to join an "American National Socialist Party." Last week her pupils...
Detectives of Philadelphia's radical squad were not so tolerant. They arrested eleven hecklers, including the chairman of a "Philadelphia Committee for the Defense of Constitutional Rights," which pickets Station WDAS for not broadcasting Radiorator Coughlin's speeches. The eleven, charged with inciting to riot, were each held in $1,000 bond, the dangers of intolerance have been Father Coughlin's efforts to link Jews with Communism. This charge was lately riddled (in a Commonweal article) by an outstanding Catholic, Washington's Monsignor John Augustine Ryan. Last week brought more rebukes, tacit and otherwise...
...strenuous for any active man. It has recently attracted many women players. Most notable: British Margot Lumb, who beat Tennist Helen Jacobs last fall in the women's tennis at Forest Hills. The U. S. amateur championship, contested last month in Chicago, was won by Donald Strachan of Philadelphia...
...Philadelphia, Conductor Leopold Stokowski, now working on a score for the next Walt Disney full-length film, Fantasia, expressed his opinion of the cinema...