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...Please keep the rats for us. Our laboratory is situated near the big railway termini which will be among the first targets for raiding airplanes and we would like to be sure that some of the most important of our scientific materials are out of harm...
...thing the Vans particularly wanted in 1929 was the C. & E. I. to connect their termini at St. Louis and Chicago. In its 1929 plan for the coordination of U. S. railroads, however, ICC not only included that road in the Chicago & North Western system but specifically disapproved its linkage with C. & O. This, it appeared last week, was no deterrent to the Van Sweringens. In January 1930, Chesapeake & Ohio paid $5,000,000 to the Boston brokerage house of Paine, Webber & Co., for an "option" on controlling securities in C. & E. I. Paine, Webber & Co., which did not then...
...terrified farmers against the Mafia. In 1929, when the offices of Fascist Mori were jammed with evidence of more than 100 murders, the first of these great mass trials began (TIME, Oct. 24, 1927). Fascist prosecutors rushed from Rome to Sicily. In May 1929, 150 Mafisti were convicted at Termini Imerese. In January 1930, 170 more were sent to jail at Palermo. In July of the same year nine were given life sentences at Agrigento. Last week's trial nearly finishes...
...Vincenzo Baiamonte. Archpriest of Burgio, and several former Mayors of local towns. Indeed last week's batch of alleged desperadoes were as different as possible from the 153 dirty, sullen men and savage, leering hags who sat in similar cages during the first mass Mafiosi trial at Termini Imerese (TIME, Oct. 24, 1927). Last week the well and in many cases elegantly dressed prisoners listened with composure while the Crown charged them with 43 murders, 26 attempted assassinations, blackmailings & robberies innumerable and, collectively, with "banding and conspiring together for criminal purposes...
Twelve harassed Sicilians wrangled for 72 hours, last week at Termini Imerese, weighing the testimony of 500 witnesses, digesting a judge's charge which covered 6,000 legal points. The jurors finally delivered a blanket verdict: "Guilty...