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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rico's bold murder shattered Accomplice Tony's nerves. Tony, in his rosy-cheeked teens, had driven Rico and the two others from the scene in a big Cadillac. Then Tony, quondam choirboy, fled to a priest to confess it all. Hearing Tony was not a sturdy sinner, Rico gave chase, caught the boy going into the cathedral, silenced him forever with an automatic. Gangsters approved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: U. S. Gangster | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

...newspapers . . . will yet see him resist the temptations . . . and be what his mother prayed he would be and what I expect him to be - a fine and useful man to his day and generation." Said Junior Heflin: "I drank about a pint of grain alcohol mixed with two parts of ginger ale at a party with some boys and girls in an apartment . . . that's all that was wrong with me. . . . I told [the officer] I had taken a veronal tablet. . . . I used the same excuse when I had been drinking at the University of Alabama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 1, 1929 | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

Joseph E. Widener, Philadelphia sportsman-financier, ordered his two-acre Elmendorf Farm in Lexington, Ky., to be converted into a cemetery for the Widener thoroughbred horses. The central monument will be a large statue of Fair Play, sire of famed, fleet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 1, 1929 | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

...open championship over the Winged Foot course. Said he: "It all depends on irons. If I don't get the confounded things to working this week there's no likelihood that I'll change my title now or any time in the near future." In two practice rounds he shot 69, 70. Par for Winged Foot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 1, 1929 | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

...Royal Baking Powder already owned two-thirds of the capital stock of E. W. Gillett, Ltd., which is largest Canadian baking-powder maker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Morgan Mergers | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

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