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Gang murders like those over which the Brooklyn District Attorney has been putting on such a show (TIME, April 1) are the gruesome small change of the underworld business. Thompson & Raymond are concerned to demonstrate that underworld business would never have nourished in New York City in the '20s and '30s unless it had been an upper-world business as well-a business that became big-time with Prohibition, that became pervasive with the industrial rackets, that reached almost tyrannical power when a queer, greedy slob and gunman named Arthur Flegenheimer gave orders...
Flourishing in the early '20s among Kensington's many busy mills was the Westmoreland, one of a chain of mills operated by Interstate Knitting Mills, Inc. Years went by, the machinery in Westmoreland's dingy red-brick building grew old, became outmoded. Last summer Interstate closed the mill. Faced with joblessness, the 500 employes decided to take it over, run it as a cooperative. They borrowed on their homes, cars, signed quick notes, and incorporated as the Hancock Knitting Mills...
...York Tribune, caricatures for The Masses. The Walker show keeps track of his life since 1915: drawings from a World War I trip to Russia with John Reed; satires on the Versailles Peace Conference; English sketches made while he cartooned for the London Outlook in the early '20s; studies for murals; illustrations for Dostoevski's novels...
When it came to corsets, men feared the worst, hearing tell of a new outline called the "long torso." This sounded like a threat to return to the hideous, bag-shaped style of the '20s, when theflour-sack dress flourished and the straight line conquered all. But it seemed last week that the "long torso," alias the "extended waistline," was just another false alarm. Even the stylists could not make sense of it. Wrote Carmel Snow, in Harper's Bazaar: "It's not a lower waistline, or a higher waistline. It starts exactly at its natural, rightful...
...Daily has won many a campaign. Back in the '20s the Daily demanded fire escapes for students' rooming houses, got what it wanted when a house converted into a dormitory burned up. A recent series of indignant stories provoked a faculty investigation of all housing conditions. Currently the Daily is trying to get trolley fares between St. Paul and Minneapolis reduced for students...