Word: wintered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Upon the wistful departure of Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone, famed ganglander, for a winter vacation (TIME, Dec. 16),* Chicago announced itself to be convalescent from the civic disease that had made it the most notably criminal city in the U. S. Even Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson stopped shouting about Chicago's virtues to announce that its vices were on the wane. Chief of Police Michael Hughes gave out figures to the effect that Chicago was 66% less criminal in 1927 than formerly...
...Church of England prayer book schism had suddenly yawned into a wide abyss. On which side stood the Sovereign? If on both, could he long maintain so wide a straddle? Leaders on both sides, harassed His Majesty, last week, by despatching hundreds of partisan appeals to the royal winter residence, Sandringham House, Norfolk. What to decide...
When the Diet reassembled, last week, to complete its winter sessions, Prime Minister Baron Guchi Tanaka found that the long shaky coalition support of his cabinet was disintegrating and straightway took dramatic action...
Gypsies. As numerous as rabbits in New Zealand are gypsy fortune-tellers in New York this winter. They rent vacant stores as combined homes & professional offices, hang up a few draperies perfumed with sweat & garlic, paw visitors' palms for considerations of $1 to $3 each. If a client wants a really big question answered, he is sometimes instructed to press a $1 bill against the gypsy and blow on it, while the gypsy neatly picks his pocket. For such practices, the police arrested seven gypsy women in uptown Manhattan a fortnight ago, and examined dozens more last week. Be these...
...richer man than Mr. Loree and, upon the event, a more potent in Lehigh Valley finances, did go to Philadelphia ? hastily. He was venerable Edward Townsend Stotesbury, 79, head of Drexel & Co. in Philadelphia and partner of J. P. Morgan & Co. in Manhattan. In Florida for winter's holiday, he risked no contretemps but took train in time to hearten by his pre ence at the meeting President Edward Eugene Loomis of the Lehigh Valley...