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Trades. In Brooklyn, Hyman Crupnick, charged with breaking into an apartment, stealing a pocketbook, faced a life term as an habitual offender if convicted. In the pocketbook: 2?. In Denver, a burglar broke open a piggy bank, found a paltry 15?, lost his temper, threw 24 eggs against the walls and ceiling...
Teams. In Washington, a youth snatched a woman's pocketbook, made a lateral pass to a cyclist on the street, and both escaped. In Chinook, Mont., a big and a little dog went visiting back porches. The big dog knocked the milk bottles over, the little dog nipped out the bottle caps, both drank...
...prophecies in this anthology range from bright to dark, from inspired vision to inspired foresight. There are prophecies for every pocketbook, every human hope, dream, fear. The most magnificent prophets are still the Jews. This book contains much of Isaiah and Ezekiel, the Book of Revelation complete. Eighty pages are devoted to modish Michael Nostradamus, whose double-talk may or may not predict Hess's flight, Hitler's downfall. St. Odile predicts the end of the Germans-unless she is predicting the end of the Mohammedans, a more pressing danger in the 7th Century. "America's greatest...
Bear these facts in mind when you vote today. They are practical considerations that are apt to hit you not only in the stomach, but in your pocketbook as well. Your considered vote will do much towards giving the powers-that-be a reasonable idea of what you want and how you want...
...roster of A.F. of L. craft unions: the Boilermakers, the Carpenters (to work on steel window frames), the Sheet Metal Workers, the Plumbers, the Sawmill Workers, the Machinists. For each new membership he had to fork out an initiation fee, until his pockets bulged with union cards but his pocketbook was flat...