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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Force with Force" Adolf Hitler's personal newsorgan Vőlkischer Beobachter thundered last week: "The halting and search of the German steamer Kamerun on the high seas by [Spanish Government] Red Marxist marines is a serious breach of international...
...Specifically they wanted to show that in killing a minor Dillinger mobster named Eddie Green in St. Paul two years ago, the Department of Justice operatives had shot without warning or cause. This plan presumably went on the rocks when Sleuth Boatwright, posing as a magazine writer in search of new material, confided it to a onetime G-Man. It was not long before the Secret Service's scheme was known at the Department of Justice. Enraged, Attorney General Cummings declared he would resist any attempts to discredit J. Edgar Hoover or his men. Professing great surprise, the Treasury...
...watch and pocketed it, I realized they were highwaymen. Then he felt in my pocket and took out a roll of American bills [$200]. . . . When the bandits had finished with me, I walked ahead and saw Skewes Saunders, an Englishman who had previously been knocked unconscious when he resisted search. I noticed one bandit behind a tree about 75 yd. from my car and another behind a rock nearby, both with rifles pointed on us. ... I became resigned to the situation." Aboard a launch on his way to the Chesapeake Bay fishing grounds off Solomons Island, Md., Ohio...
...operatives was originally drafted for the Democratic platform, though the plank was finally whittled down to an innocuous statement about narrowing the spread between producer and consumer prices. In Scribner's, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace lately suggested cooperation as the answer to the title of his article, "The Search For An American Way." Elaborating an a book called Whose Constitution? published last week, Secretary Wallace declared: "Producer cooperatives are not enough. . . . The co-operative way of life must pervade the community, and this means there must be consumer co-operatives as well. ..." Referring to industrial cooperatives, Iowa...
...Bloomsburg, Pa., for a firemen's convention, John Sukaloski soiled his only suit, sent it to be cleaned, forgot the cleaner's name. Garbed in his landlady's clothing, he went in search of his suit, followed a gay convention parade, was astonished to win a $5 prize as the best female impersonator...