Word: underworld
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wrote to her daughter: "Caroline, wherever in the world did you hear such language?" For years Caroline has been a social worker, has more understanding of the Bowery bum than respect for her bureaucratic colleagues who speak of the poor as "cases." She has seen the same economic underworld that preoccupied Farrell, Steinbeck, Dos Passes. But it has whetted, not dulled, her faith in man's ability to conquer his environment...
...vigorous group of non-green plants-the fungi. For ages men watched helplessly while these vegetable vampires literally sucked the green blood of plants, wasted their crops. But about 100 years ago, men armed themselves with scientific weapons and began a desperate war-still raging-against the fungal underworld. Last fortnight, in The Advance of the Fungi (Holt; $4), British Chemist E. C. Large offered a vivid story of the last century's battles, a brilliant reconnaissance of the enemy's present positions...
...Utopia); the late General Walter Krivitsky. For Editor Riesel these characteristic contributors afforded a probable reason for the visit: Communist footpads were looking for the address of Richard Julius Herman Krebs, alias Jan Valtin, ex-Communist author of Out of the Night, currently best-selling Baedeker of the Stalinist underworld. The raiders found no addresses...
...would have thought of him as anything but an associate of underworld journalists, whose desire to obtain crime news has often led them to cultivating the friendship of prominent thieves and cutthroats merely to obtain news...
Working for Bernarr Macfadden's Graphic in New York, he was bounced out of interviews, elegantly by Winston Churchill (when he discovered Scott did not represent the London Graphic}, grimly by Gangsters Irving Bitz and Salvatore Spitale (who did not want to talk about underworld angles of the Lindbergh kidnapping). Last week Ted Scott bounced again - this time out of the Republic of Panama on a deportation order...