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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alexander Ondi, 21 (who was born in the hamlet of Chicago, Tex. and lived there for his first eleven years), tested the Hungarian law last week. Wearing a mask made for him by "the sweetheart of a friend of mine," Alexander Ondi held up a Budapest bank, got away with $10,000, fired shots into the air, hit nobody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Grim Test | 11/2/1931 | See Source »

...visited Rio de Janeiro with passengers & mail on her fifth voyage from Friedrichshafen since Aug. 28. At the same time in Akron, Ohio an important milestone was passed in U. S. dirigible development. On the strength of a radiogram from the Secretary of the Navy, Lieut. Thomas G. W. ("Tex") Settle, naval inspector of construction of the airship Akron at the Goodyear-Zeppelin dock, wrote his signature on documents that meant "preliminarily accepted." At that moment she became Navy property and the contract for construction on her sister ZRS-5 became effective...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Lighter-than-Air | 11/2/1931 | See Source »

...FITZGERALD Fitzgerald's Nursery Stephenville, Tex...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 26, 1931 | 10/26/1931 | See Source »

...Hickory Slim, the Dice Guy," $25,000. Other bookmakers got smaller amounts. Altogether Snorkey's fondness for playing the Caponies seemed to have cost him some $200.000. Snorkey smirked, did not seem ashamed. One Bud Gentry breezed up on the stand, recalled that Prizefighters Sharkey & Stribling and Mrs. Tex Rickard had been Capone's guests in Florida, said that at the end of the 1929 racing season he had won $110.-000 from Snorkey. He could not remember any of the horses Snorkey had bet on. The defense rested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Capone & Caponies | 10/26/1931 | See Source »

...have been converted and are now preaching the gospel they sought to destroy, which is a further indication of Methodist progress." He pointed also to progress in the movement for union of all the branches of Methodism in England. Delegates applauded loudly when Bishop John Monroe Moore of Dallas, Tex., said that the Northern and Southern branches in the U. S. "cannot be kept apart much longer. . . . The causes of unification are not dead, they are only sleeping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Methodists Meet | 10/26/1931 | See Source »

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