Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week the Justice Department got a tip that Nelson, who had been hunted in the Chicago area for some six weeks, was heading for a house near suburban Barrington, Ill. Two by two. in fast new Hudsons. agents of the Department's Chicago division rolled out for the chase. Together went pleasant, round-faced Inspector Samuel P. Cowley, 35, and clean-cut Herman E. Hollis, 28. Both were graduates of Washington law schools, both participants in the catching & killing of Dillinger. Cowley had also been in at the death of Charles ("Pretty Boy") Floyd (TIME, Oct. 29). Hollis...
...from Washington flew Inspector Hugh H. Clegg to direct the hunt of thousands of Federal, State and local officers for the only man who had ever lived to kill more than one Department of Justice agent. Early next morning the dead agents' automobile was found abandoned in suburban Winnetka. The front seat was caked with blood. Soon after in Niles Center a bundle of blood-soaked men's clothes was picked...
...still the music of Franz Lehar, the old bandmaster, who contrary to general opinion, is still bandmastering, is the best thing on the program. The picture is diverting, hardly-colossal, if you have a chance, drop in, but as you value your sanity, avoid Mr. Martel's suburban organ music...
...Church announced a Thursday afternoon "Snow Train Service," to begin this week. Rectors of Boston's two largest Episcopal churches, they wish to bring back to church that "large and significant element in the modern community" who are kept away from Sunday worship by "the automobile and the suburban out-of-door week-end." Rectors Osgood and Kinsolving will participate jointly in the "Snow Train Service," so named after the special train on which Bostonians travel to winter weekends in Vermont and New Hampshire...
Stoll. The kidnapping of wealthy young Mrs. Alice Speed Stoll of Louisville, Ky. fortnight ago, put the Division of Investigation ("D. O. I.") agents on their mettle. Mrs. Stoll, ill with a cold, was seized shortly after 3 p. m. from her suburban house by a man with a revolver and a lead pipe. The Stolls did not ring famed NAtional 7117 in Washington, as every kidnappee's family is supposed to do. The first thing that D. O. I. Director John Edgar Hoover knew about the case was when he received a telephone message...