Word: whats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The Key West jury believed Coalman Gramm's story, acquitted his brother-in-law. They took no stock in the testimony of Assistant Prohibition Commissioner Alfred Oftedal, who told how Congressman Michaelson had visited him in Washington to discuss liquor and smuggling. Mr. Oftedal said that the Congressman had...
Chicago detectives readily identified the three corpses as what remained of John Scalise, Albert Anselmi and Joseph Guinta, gangsters all. Scalise and Anselmi were professional assassins, members of the modest remainder of Alphonse ("Scarface") Capone's once-invincible "mob." They had wriggled through three murder trials to freedom. For...
Job No. 3 is now, and for three years has been, occupied by James John Walker (48). Mayor Walker (he is addressed never as "Your Honor" but as "Mister Mayor," like ''Mister President") last week laid a public school corner stone at Coney Island, broke ground for a...
What augurs best for Mayor Walker as a candidate to succeed himself is the almost complete absence of a cohesive and well-directed Opposition. New York City Republicans are at a loss for a suitable nominee, are even ready.to fuse with independent Democrats if they have a man to offer...
Calvin Coolidge, a director of New York Life Insurance Co., started from his Northampton home last week to attend a board meeting in Manhattan. In the Northampton station he sat?and sat. No train came. Director Coolidge eyed his watch, sat some more, in silence. After a half-hour, a...