Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...extradition to England, where charges resulting from the $7,000,000 coup are pending. But Jake the Barber was neither in Oklahoma, Virginia, Florida or Mexico. He never left Illinois. An unnamed friend turned over $50,000 to some unnamed men in an automobile, reputedly at Hinsdale, western Chicago suburb. After twelve days in captivity. Factor was released at La Grange, 111., three blocks from the police station. His clothes were disheveled, his beard long, his eyes swollen from their tape bandages. He tottered into the station house and asked for whiskey. He said that guns had been poked...
...Saranac camp where he intones German and Jewish folksongs to his guests for hours on end. Sultry summer evenings bring excellent open-air music to a dozen U. S. cities, whereby musicians are kept busy from one formal winter season to the next. In San Mateo, smart suburb of San Francisco, Conductor Richard Lert (Playwright Vicki Baum's husband) began concerts in the picturesque Woodland Theatre last week. In Cincinnati's Zoo where Goliath, Barnum & Bailey's 10.000-lb. sea lion recently visited, Lohengrin started eight weeks of opera on money largely raised by Mrs. John Josiah...
...Kenilworth, Ill., Chicago suburb, Episcopalians cocked quizzical eyes as they approached their Church of the Holy Comforter one Sunday lately. The front doorway was unaccountably bricked up. A vestryman stood nearby, motioning worshippers around to a side entrance. During the service Rev. Leland Hobart Danforth explained that the Church needed $1,500. For every $5 contributed, a brick would be removed. Last week the Church of the Holy Comforter had $1,220, the doorway was almost open...
...local school boards doing business with taxpayers' money. There are 424,000 school board members, one for every two U. S. school teachers. That some are inefficient and others are dishonest is not surprising. But people everywhere were amazed last week to hear that Dickson City, coal-mining suburb of Scranton, Pa., has a schoolman who cannot read and can scarcely write...
Terror still gripped Havana. In socialite Vedado suburb a young Negro attempted to steal a bicycle, ducked round a corner when he was seen. It was a stupid move for round that corner was the wall of Principe Fortress, on the wall was a prison guard with a rifle in his hand and nothing to do. The reaction of a Cuban guard to a running Negro is precisely that of a British sportsman to a rocketing pheasant. He killed him with a single shot...