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...shoes, kept Capone as his right-hand man. When Dion O'Banion's North Side gang hijacked too much of their beer in 1924; O'Banion was neatly drilled in his Chicago flower shop. Torrio attended the $50,000 funeral with Capone, looked at his dead foe, murmured disconsolately: "Poor Dion." But the floral wreath he sent was dumped in an ashcan, and Torrio fled to Hot Springs, Ark., to New Orleans, to the Bahamas, to Cuba, pursued by O'Banion gunmen. When he finally screwed up enough courage to return to Chicago, he was riddled...
More disillusioned than most of her heartthrob imitators, Dorothy Dix is nevertheless a stern foe of sexual irregularity among her readership. "Often a girl writes me that I have turned her back just as she was starting down the primrose path, and married men and women tell me I have kept them from the sin and folly of the double life," she says. To women who have been jilted by married men, she has a standard reply: "Quit befooling yourself with false hopes. . . . Now, when his romance with you is as stale as his marriage, he hasn...
...without his aid or advice. When Monopoly was the great issue under Roosevelt I, Senator Borah was in the thick of the fight. Since then political ideology has moved on into fresher fields, more social than economic, with the result that the Idahoan of 1906 is left battling a foe which to 1936 liberals is but hollow husk...
...Army jerking the strings, last week hurled fast-moving military detachments into Inner Mongolia and seized its capital, Pailingmiao. Apparently this was done with the bribe-bought co-operation of one of the last Celestials to wear the ancient Chinese pigtail, famed Prince Te. His Highness is the blandest foe of Soviet Russian influence, in Inner and Outer Mongolia. In effect the seizure of Pailingmiao, jabbed the Japanese spearhead 200 miles nearer to an ultimate clash with the Red Army of Joseph Stalin for the mastery of Eastern Asia...
...whose leaders are from Teachers College, Columbia. Organized this year as the John Dewey Society, these Left-wing professors succeeded in packing the banquet hall of the Hotel Jefferson with 1,500 sympathetic superintendents. Earnest Professor George Sylvester Counts sniped at four notable targets: 1) William Randolph Hearst: "A foe of freedom of assembly, speech and press"; 2) Alfred E. Smith: "Once a friend of Education and the common man, he has sold out to privilege"; 3) Past Commander Frank Belgrano of the American Legion: ''He betrayed the idealism and patriotism of the rank & file of American Legion...