Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chicago crime investigators rushed to St. Joseph. A microscopic comparison of scratched bullets from one of the machine guns with those found in the bodies of seven gangsters slain in the Moran whiskey depot last winter strengthened their conviction that Burke had led Chicago's famed St. Valentine's Day massacre (TIME, Feb. 25). To him are attributed at least four other murders, among them the killing of Brooklyn Gang King Frank Uale (TIME, July 9, 1928). The Federal government and six States want him for shootings or bank banditry. Rewards between $60,000 and $75,000 (depending...
...Britain's pitifully depressed coal industry (TIME, Oct. 28) came up for its second reading. In no sense Communist or Radical, the bill epitomizes Scot MacDonald's own brand of "safe and sturdy Socialism." It provides: 1) shortening the miners' working day from eight hours to seven and one-half; 2) establishment of a "National Industrial Board" of big business and labor leaders; 3) creation of a "National Coal Marketing Board" to coordinate the whole industry and present a united front to the coal trusts of continental Europe...
...Recent statistic: In the U. S., one tub to every 20 persons; one automobile to every seven...
Awarded. To Henry Waters Taft, brother of Chief Justice William Howard Taft; the Japanese Order of the Rising Sun; at a dinner of the Japan Society (Manhattan) of which he had been President seven years...
...Louis one Sam Lehrer was held up by a Negro thug who, finding no money, clipped off a seven-inch length from Lehrer's beard, departed saying: "I shall sell this...