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...days later, at the hour of 4 a. m., somebody threw half a brick and a salt shaker through the window of Mrs. Maude Wilson's coffee shop...
Some 150 Manhattan speakeasies paid Down-Shaker Harris some $25,000 over a period of several weeks. He played the game at both ends, often telephoning to local Prohibition headquarters to "squeal" on proprietors he had found obdurate...
Last week, Down-Shaker Harris was arrested for impersonating an officer and for extortion. What exposed him was irate proprietors telephoning Prohibition headquarters to complain that they had already paid their protection fees and did not want to be further imposed upon...
...Vagabond is afflicted with a conscience that every year has sent him rushing back to stores on December twenty-fourth and a half to exchange Cousin Ned's pipe for a cocktail shaker on receipt of the news that Aunt Alice is going to try having him swear off on smoking instead of drinking this New Year. This time he has been more provident, however, and was careful to select a store that made a conspicuous display of its "No Credits or Exchanges" sign that was reassuring in its finality. For once he is prepared to enjoy the days preceding...
...Shaker Giovanni Giuriati is a somewhat insignificant minion of Dictator Mussolini. But Shaker André Tardieu is one of the ablest, most forthright and least blatantly famed statesmen of France. Deftly M. Tardieu turned his complimentary speech to Signer Giuriati into an inoffensive but significant hint. Italy and France might differ, he said, in their political concepts and in the objects of their foreign policy; but surely they ought to unite in more and more projects of commercial benefit, such as this railway. "I hail these strong bands of steel," cried André Tardieu in emotional peroration...