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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Morning on the Gold Coast dawned on empty streets, but pursuit of the busy towing car would have revealed a lot overflowing with cars of every description. The outraged owner, apprised of his bereavement, instituted a frantic search and finally located his missing car. It was at once apparent that the guardians of the law had shared the joke with the garage in whose lot the cars were stored, for a fee of eight dollars was exacted before the car could be moved from durance vile...
...remained to be added by the incoming class. At the scrimmage of the first and second teams on Soldiers Field during the afternoon many spectators came and went Scores of undergraduates, free for a few more days from the exactions of classes and college routine, were on hand in search of amusement. It came, from an unexpected quarter...
...opening of the new year finds the Business School still in search of permanent shelter. Memorial Hall has become the present home of the School's Accounting Department and Student Reports, which have taken refuge there while waiting to transfer to the Delta. This transfer will be effected by October 15, it has been announced, the School occupying the former home of the Bursar's Office, which is left vacant by its removal to the new accounting building...
...next afternoon police raided a barber shop in Manhattan's Chinatown. They rushed up the stairs and heard feet pattering on the roof. They opened the hatch and saw no one. They went out on the roof to search and a fusillade of shots fell about them from a roof across the streets. Forty shots were fired but no one was hurt. In a safe below they found ten new automatics, 1,000 rounds of ammunition and six steel vests. Henry Moy, his brother Frank and other prominent On Leongs stood across the street watching the proceedings...
...fortnight ago Boris was reported the near victim of typhus bacilii interlarded by "a suspicious cook" in his dessert. Last April he returned the fire of assassins who intercepted his car near Sofia. Last December he made a "courting tour of Europe, in search of a bride." TIME chronicled these events (Sept. 14 and April...