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...eagerly at the task, sent for his friend A. B. MacDonald, shrewd crime reporter for the Kansas City Star. Well-trained Reporter MacDonald promptly questioned Lawyer Payne about every woman he had known. Payne spoke freely, elaborately of a dozen or more, skipped lightly over the name of Mrs. Verona Thompson, his former private secretary, "so plain and ordinary no one would look at her." Catching the scent, Howe and MacDonald immediately sought Mrs. Thompson, found her to be an attractive widow, wrung from her an admission that Payne had promised to run off with her after doing away with...
Adriatic Electric Co., formed in 1904 by Count Volpi, serving Venice, Trieste, Bologna, Verona, Padua, and other centres in 15 northern provinces. In the last seven years its output has increased 110% and it now ranks as one of the leading Italian power companies. A big stockholder is the Italian Superpower Corp., of which Sidney Zollicoffer Mitchell is executive committee chairman and his son, S. A. Mitchell, chairman of the board...
Clever at currying favor with Il Duce is Verona's obsequious Prefect Roberto Lops. Last week he industriously circularized the Fascist gentlemen of Verona, urged them to sign a petition conceived to tickle the vanity of all-potent Benito Mussolini...
Unhesitatingly some 10,000 gentlemen of Verona signed last week Roberto Lops's petition begging Benito Mussolini to order that: 1) Women's dresses must not be translucent, close fitting or low cut. 2) Elbows must be covered. 3) Stockings must be some other color than "flesh." 4) Skirts for "young girls" must extend below the knee, for "young ladies" below the calf...
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