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Onetime home port for Scarface Al Capone's mob, Cicero, Ill. has become a U. S. household synonym for murder and vice. There fell Assistant State's Attorney William McSwiggin under gangland bullets. Frank Capone, Al's brother, died violently there. Musicomedienne Rosetta Duncan had her nose smashed there. Last week Cicero turned over a new political leaf...
...Subscriber Mayberry note well that TIME uses no slang word in its reporting of the news unless there is no synonym in good usage.-ED. Sirs: . . . Personally, I don't see how a man can be accurately described in print, unless some of the things he does, the expressions that he uses, are outlined. . . . There are five people (over 21) besides myself, who read my copy of TIME, and they all agree that TIME is "a - - wow"- (not used with the permission of the copyright owners). Louis NELSON...
...vast public as typical of the U. S. scientist, prelate and minor tycoon, respectively. But Babbitt remained foremost among them as a representative of U. S. citizenry and U. S. literature, having been more translated* and being more lipworthy in name. George Follansbee Babbitt was recognized as a world synonym for Homo Americanus when, last week, Author Lewis was awarded the Nobel prize for literature, biggest & best literary honor on earth. Tall, spindly, brass-haired, pock-marked Sinclair Lewis was born Feb. 7, 1885, in Sauk Center, Minn. His father, a country physician, had migrated from Connecticut...
Pastor Helm's letter of resignation to the council said: "I doubt whether any church in the United States has a better background for the appreciation of the practical significance of the religion of Jesus than has Bethel. The first premise of Christianity and its most perfect synonym is brotherhood. To refuse brotherhood to any Christian is the oldest and most heretical blasphemy conceivable. American Christianity is . . . compromised and enmeshed. . . To refuse church membership to anyone not of the same race is to deny the most obvious teaching of Jesus and to give the ethical sanctions of Christianity to race...
...Arizona, bought from Mexico for $10,000,000 to "rectify" the international boundary. Five years earlier, following the Mexican War, the U. S. had taken all of California, Nevada, Utah, most of Arizona and New Mexico, paying only $15,000,000. The Gadsden Purchase is something of a synonym for Conscience Money...