Word: repealers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Footnote to Kentucky Repeal vote: One Negro woman to another in front of a Middlesboro polling place-"Heah's how 'tis, honey...
...initiative, to take a straw vote among them next January on the question of whether they want obligatory potato control. If a large majority want it, Congress will be asked to appropriate the money. If the majority is small or nonexistent, Congress may take the hint, repeal the Potato...
...season to prepare for climactic games later, most major teams now play able opponents exclusively, draw correspondingly bigger crowds. Rules designed to encourage forward passes and spectacular ground plays have made the game more attractive to spectators. New roads have made it easier to get to games while Repeal has made it pleasanter. A decade ago, only a few late-season games drew more than 50,000 each. Last week's two biggest were watched...
Police cars, press cars and ambulances screamed toward the scene of the latest event in the career of Arthur ("Dutch Schultz") Flegenheimer, New York City's most notorious racketeer, the nation's most prosperous post-Repeal criminal and the one big hoodlum against whom the U. S. Government could not make income tax charges stick (TIME, Aug. 12, et ante). At the Palace Chop House & Tavern, officers, newshawks and surgeons beheld a sight unparalleled since Chicago's St. Valentine's Day Massacre (TIME, Feb. 25. 1929). Lying on the sidewalk they found Abraham Landau, Flegenheimer henchman...
...York police, Flegenheimer himself had always been something of an enigma: a sloppy, unambitious burglar and package thief who became ruler of a great illegal beer distributing system in The Bronx, survived Repeal to go on into even more lucrative rackets. He was credited with running a waiters' union, a usurious system of small loans to the poor, several midtown night clubs in Manhattan. But the chief source of Flegenheimer's income was the policy game, the daily lottery which keeps most of Harlem's Negroes poor. Most players can bet only a few pennies...