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Last week Deputy Sheriff Roy Smith, fat, officious, went to the De King home with the warrant. It was 9 p. m. De King refused to let him in. Smith went away, returned before midnight with three more deputies. They surrounded the house, threw mustard bombs, rushed the door. De...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Fatal Zeal | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

There were many possible reasons for the massacre but only one motive-jungle justice. Chief Gangster Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone's West Side mob was under suspicion. Tony Lombardo, Capone's good friend, wilted last summer under a spray of bullets at Madison and Dearborn Streets (TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Chicago's Record | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

TIME and olives are in the same class for me-I had to learn to like 'em both. But now such little intimate conversations as this: "I don't like this pie. Get me one with crust on"*which was retailed in the issue of Dec. 10 lends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 7, 1929 | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

Captain B. H. Whitbeck '29, staged a comeback in his encounter with Pitman of Yale, when a stubbornly contested three set match ended with a score of 5-7, 6-4, 7-5 in favor of the Crimson leader. Pitman stormed through the first set, using his fast flat first...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NETMEN REPULSE YALE TEAM, 7 TO 2 | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

Last week rubber bounded-down, down. At the Rubber Exchange there was pandemonium in miniature likeness of the Stock Exchange. Rubber dropped to new low records for the history of the two-year-old exchange. Trading was in tremendous volume, pace of execution was terrific, collars wilted and voices hoarsened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Rubber Thunder | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

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