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...Hotel Metropole. For that murder four gunmen and a police lieutenant went to the electric chair. An indignant city began an investigation of police-protected vice which eventually put District Attorney Charles Whitman in the Governor's chair. Swirled up from the nether depths by this inquiry was a plump little 40-year-old German named David Maier. He had been a brothel keeper. During the investigation he had offered a hostile witness $50 to pervert his testimony. In March 1914, David Maier went to trial for bribery. On the witness stand he was asked and answered these questions...
Disheartened Mexican laborers were returning from the U. S. in droves, unable to find employment. They were poor, they were hungry and all the grocery stores seemed to be owned by plump, placid Chinese. Nationalistic mobs gathered. At least three Chinese were killed by angry crowds. Stores were broken open, Chinese homes set afire. Town councils forcibly closed other stores; taxes were raised; shop-keepers were fined for non-compliance with...
...Francisco's California School of Fine Arts was the latest wall work of Mexico's Diego Rivera, famed, fat and 40. As you look at the tropicolored mural, 45 ft. by 35 ft., your eye is immediately drawn to a focal point - Muralist Diego Rivera's plump posterior squashed comfortably down on a plank. The whole picture epitomizes some of the arts and industries of the U.S. Upon a great scaffolding several artisans are at work besides Diego Rivera, who is painting a huge central figure, symbolical of them all. Rivera holds in one hand...
...summer plump, round-faced Basil Maxwell Manly has been quietly investigating the political and personal bank accounts of Bishop James Cannon...
...known occupation, that he had married her. His friends avoided him for a while, but he and his Girl lived together happily, adopted a child called Constance May. When Rosina ("Pete") Fritz Flood died her husband promised to marry her sister Maude Lee. The second Mrs. Flood was a plump, quiet homebody, well-liked in San Francisco. Yet scandal does not die. In the little Redwood City court house (in the fashionable Peninsula district) spectators thronged last week to hear the Flood Affair dragged into the open. It was story-of-the-week for the newspapers...