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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fall has also to be cleared of conspiring with Sinclair to defraud the U. S. It was with Sinclair that Fall last went on trial, two years ago, when Sinclair shadowed the jury and a mistrial was declared. When that case was retried in the spring of 1928, Fall was too ill to be a codefendant. Sinclair was acquitted (TIME, April...
...Thriving "places of business" crowd one another in Boston's South End. Philadelphia and New York rings vie with local operatives for the Boston trade. But last week the Boston vice industry suffered a slump. Federal agents descended on South End "houses." The hostesses, forewarned, had fled. Only two women were taken in: Rose ("Rosie Big Lips") Restant and Pauline ("Queen Polly") Levine...
...offshoot of the loitering hurricane, whooshed down on Miami. Telephone and electric lines were blown down, otherwise there was little damage. Floridans began to call the hurricane a second-rater, when from Nassau, capital of the Bahamas, came delayed reports : Most destructive hurricane in Bahamian history. . . . Wracked Nassau for two days. . . . Velocity of gusts 180 miles. . . . Eight known dead. . . . Enormous destruction of property and shipping. . . . Only a few ships afloat. . . . No building escaped injury. . . . Sea wall broken, city flooded...
Equity arbitrators then met, discussed God and his acts. Appalled by the cosmic dimensions of their dilemma, they adjourned, wordless. But at their meeting last week they were so fortunate as to find a way out. They announced that Mr. Harris owed his actors two weeks' salary. Their reason: Nothing in the contracts prevented him from employing a substitute for Actress Hayes...
Last week M. Devgalevsky was back in London talking busily with "Uncle Arthur'' Henderson. "Oriental bargaining" produced two points of definite agreement : 1) Russia agreed to withdraw all Soviet agents at present engaged in communist propaganda in India; to give no further help, directly or indirectly, to Indian Communists. 2) Britain agreed to the exchange of ambassadors before discussing the delicate subject of Russia's pre-War debts...