Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another agent of Irving ("Waxey Gordon") Wexler. whose wide interests include theatrical promotion (Strike Me Pink), liquor and an indictment for $400,000 tax evasion, was shot down as he got out of a bus in The Bronx last week. Owen Victor ("Owncy") Madden, best known Manhattan racketeer, whose Staten Island brewery is reportedly now operating legally, was let out of Sing Sing, where he had been since last July for violation of parole. In his pocket was $17.52 he had made growing carnations and jonquils...
...mighty cheer went up from the seven hills around Lough Foyle. Londonderry's tidy harbor, as General Italo Balbo's seaplane armada circled the city with a fearful roar of 48 wide-open motors. They paraded the sky in platoons of six"black-hulled, red, green, white"each platoon being formed by two tight triads. Soon all were moored, and General Balbo and his officers went ashore in motorboats to tread rose petals, cast by Italian children on their way to Londonderry's Guildhall. The 24 seaplanes rode at moorings, drinking gasoline by the hundred-gallon...
...three other States, it required automobiles to be equipped with safety glass in the near future. As in 33 other States, it took control of beer sales.* As in three other States, it sanctioned public housing corporations as R. F. C. borrowers for slum clearance. Also, following a nation-wide trend, it passed a new alimony code and the smallest appropriation bill in a decade...
...committee rich-radical Senator James Couzens lifted his voice in praise of price-upping through a simultaneous world-wide public works program, holding an increase in consumption and production to be more effective than tariff or monetary changes. Debts, he admitted, must be adjusted. Meantime Indian and some other Delegates swung to the support of the U. S. plan for a freer use of silver...
...from the south side to the north side of the Shantung Peninsula. Ever since it has discharged into the sea 400 miles north of its former mouth. Last week the Government experts, prowling anxiously up and down the Yellow River's dikes below Kaifeng. finally telegraphed a nation-wide warning that "almost inevitably" the retaining walls will give way and the Yellow Dragon will revert, roaring and thundering, to its old course...