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...week's end, Chicago had the answer. A rumpled, sore-eyed, unshaven Negro was turned loose on a Chicago side street. (The Daily News set the ransom at $100,000.) Ed couldn't seem to remember the kidnaping, his connection with the policy racket, or anything else. But Bronzeville's memory was excellent. From the pool and dance and spiritualist halls to Dr. Pryor's Holy Floor Wash Factory and King Solomon's Temple of Religious Science, there was holiday. Big Ed was back...
...Philharmonic, who sounds off at the drop of a demiquaver, steamed into the port of Southampton from his latest U.S. junket, and sounded off: "Hollywood is a universal disaster compared to which Hitler, Himmler and Mussolini were trivial and fleeting incidents. . . . All the arts in America are a gigantic racket run by unscrupulous men for unhealthy women...
...every unethical trick. The man who wanted a new automobile in a hurry, but had no car to trade in, knew that some dealer would sell him a secondhand car at $800 and then take it back in trade at $400. The OPA was virtually helpless against the racket in autos. It caught some little fish (some of them several times), but snagged few really big ones...
...doings. Before the New York Supreme Court, they charged that Serge had kept part of the cash from the Japanese deal, put it into the Manhattan bank account of one Serge Manuel de Rovello. Cried one irate stockholder: "The history of this company is the history of a racket probably without precedent. . . . There can be no doubt that the disposal of our property was conceived in iniquity and born in sin." Cried another: "Let us never forget . . . the manipulations, financial jugglery, or what some would term jiggery-pokery...
...Army fitted some of its coastal minefields with underwater microphones. Its purpose: to listen for enemy craft, and blow them sky-high by exploding appropriate mines. For a while the minefields were quiet. Then, with spring, the microphones under an empty sea picked up an "awful racket." To some it sounded like a pneumatic drill, to others like laden freighters coming up the channel...