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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...took them to a muddy ditch outside a cemetery in Niles Center. There, wrapped in a blanket, they found a small, naked corpse. There were eight bullet wounds in its legs, one big one in its belly beneath a wad of bloody cotton. A downy mustache was on its upper lip and four finger tips had been scarred by file and acid. But by prints of the unscarred fingers police quickly assured themselves that the round, blank face, now horribly contorted, was that of "Baby Face" Nelson. In Cook County's morgue his body was stretched on the same rubber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Two for One | 12/10/1934 | See Source »

...public gaze for the first time on Tuesday morning, Sheeler's picture was hanging patiently in the second gallery to the left of the entrance on the first floor of the Museum. It was not until an inquisitive visitor wondered at the position of the signature in the upper left-hand corner that people began to get suspicious...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fogg Befogged When Picture Hung Wrong Brings on Envenomed Strife | 12/7/1934 | See Source »

Despite a slight drop in percentage enrollment since last fall, English remains, as last year, the most popular field of concentration in the college, being selected by 361 upperclassmen, or 14.2% of the upper class enrollment. Next, in order, come History, with 11.1%; Economics, with 11.0%; Government, with 8.7%; Biochemical Sciences, with 8.0%; and Romance Languages, with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: English Still Most Popular Field of Concentration Being Chosen by 361 | 12/3/1934 | See Source »

...were in their 50's, six were in their 40's, two in their 30's, two in their 20's. They were a fairly representative cross-section of the middle class of U. S. business. Sitting in judgment on 17 representatives of the upper class of U. S. business, they took just three ballots to acquit them of dishonesty: 9 to 3, 11 to 1 and 12 to 0. Of all the two tons of government evidence they asked to see just three items during their secret deliberation: three letters exchanged between Insull officials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Two & Two | 12/3/1934 | See Source »

...former anti-Hanfstaengl prisoners will speak next Sunday afternoon at 4.00 o'clock in the Adams House Upper Common Room at a meeting to be held under the auspices of the National Student League. The speaker, who is one of the six prisoners who were recently pardoned by Governor Ely after serving one month of a six-month sentence at the Middlesex House of Correction, will talk about the experience which the prisoners underwent in jail...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TELEGRAM OF PROTEST SENT TO HUEY BY N. S. L. | 12/1/1934 | See Source »

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