Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...sudden death). Already convicted on similar tax charges are Jack Guzik and Ralph Capone, Al's brother (TIME, May 5). They will probably appeal their cases. Chicago understood that Gangster Nitti was accepting this "rap," instead of fleeing the country as he easily might have done, at the express wish of Alphonse Capone, who felt that public opinion needed a little assuaging. For Scarface Al himself should have put in an appearance in Federal court last week to face tax evasion charges. But he was nowhere to be found. Judge Lyle, speaking before the Chicago Safety Council, shouted...
...district superintendent rescues an engineer from a drunken stupor by reminding him that lives depend on running the trains properly. It is a love-triangle, with Louis Wolheim as the heroic but unfortunate suitor, Robert Armstrong as the one who gets Jean Arthur in the end. Best shot: an express racing through life-sized valleys and hills to Chicago...
...direction finder or "homing device" invented by Radioman Geodfrey G. Kruesi of Western Air Express is supplementary to the ordinary aircraft radio. If the pilot cannot pick up the signals of the beacon, he simply tunes in on the known wavelength of any broadcasting station in the region. A dial on his instrument board then shows him his direction of flight in relation to the position of the broadcasting station. Last week Inventor Kruesi took his invention to Asheville, N. C, there to confer with his ailing department chief Herbert Hoover Jr. Later he was to show it to Army...
...Reich Film Censorship Board, the Nazi menagerie made its appearance in the theatre, amplified last week by the presence of a number of garden snakes that slithered over the feet of the audience, coiled under orchestra chairs. Socialist Prussian cabinet members and officials did their best to express approval of the film by going to the theatre in a body one night, applauding loudly. Said Prussian Prime Minister Dr. Adolf Braun...
...last spring by "sponsoring" a campaign against Prohibition. Popular subscriptions brought in some $19,000 to pay for full-page advertisements in 23 newspapers (TIME, March 24). Last week World's Work tried a plan similar to Life's but somewhat more amorphous: it "sponsored" an expression of "confidence" in and "deep gratitude" to President Hoover -a "unified and dramatic expression on the part of the nation's leaders." Over 5,000 letters signed by Editor Russell Doubleday were sent to business and professional men throughout the U. S., soliciting endorsements to a full-page newspaper advertisement...