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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last year George Remus, squat and muscular, got out of Atlanta Penitentiary after serving a short term for 'legging. He had made millions, had been caught, had got out. He suspected one Franklin L. Dodge Jr., a onetime U. S. Prohibition agent, of conspiring with Imogene Remus, his wife, to get his money and his life. Mrs. Remus and Dodge were paramours, Remus said. So, the morning Mrs. Remus started for court to press her divorce suit, George Remus drove alongside her car in a Cincinnati park, chased her across the grass, shot her dead. He was allowed...
...will have begun. No athlete will any longer conceal his possession of a good brain and a taste for reading. No student need slink apologetically across the quad, feeling himself useless to his college and his university. No publisher or theatrical manager will dare to use "intellectual" as a term of reproach; and no smart, uneducated worldling will sneer at the "academic" futility of the university man. But in order that the Harvard-Yale idea may have its full effect in England there must be visible rewards for prowess in the new forms of sport. Blues and half-Blues must...
...Reserve rate jacked up to 4½% all over the country to try and decelerate this movement-the money market of the U. S. was momentarily "high" and Secretary Mellon was obliged to offer, tax-exemption and all, the highest rate*he has paid in four years on short-term borrowings. Money men noted, also, that he made no specific reference to the terms that will be offered for financing the remaining $1,328,881,750 Third Liberty Loan Bonds which mature on Sept...
Died. John Downey Works, 81, onetime (1911-17) insurgent Republican U. S. Senator from California, one-term-for-Presidents protagonist; in Los Angeles...
...long rollcall, then is destined to be assumed but once today, and that only as a formality, the mere assurance of triumph already won. The cryptic "I do not choose" was altered just in time to "I will not", and the vague possibilities of a dark-horse third term are checked, once for all. And is it not better so? All the squirming and writhing of the politicians could mean but one thing; that, though they knew the voters' choice, they did not wish to obey it; that if holes were not already there, through which the machine men might...