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...writing to you to correct some details in your report of the end of the Al Brady gang [TIME...
...theft suggested by an outsider) for 10%, no other outfit would think of offering the putup man 15% for it. . . . Lying is perhaps considered by thieves to be more unethical than it is by the law-abiding. . . ." A member of Yellow Kid Weil's famed Chicago confidence gang reported: "In all my life I never heard of a racket man padding an expense account...
Exactly a year and a day after the gang's escape in Greenfield, James Dalhover, its "trigger man," walked into Dakin's store for the second time, to pick up his merchandise. Said he: "Where's the stuff I ordered?" The clerk who stepped forward was not Hurd but Walter Walsh, a crack G-man and specialist in trick shots. Walsh's job was to signal 13 more G-men, 30 Bangor patrolmen and a squad of Indiana and Maine State troopers posted outside the store as soon as a member of the Brady gang came...
...docked out as an idiotic jester and the other as a dwarfish lecher, don't deserve to be called even crude. Mr. Kaufman should have seen that some people are not subject to ridicule, and that entire has to be appropriate. Depicting the Supreme Court, moreever, as a gang of brainless no-men, takes most of the sting out of the satire thrown at the Executive. The audience in divided between laughing at the Now Deal and sympathizing with it. To these charges of indiscrimination and inconsistency must be added the guilt of that increasingly-popular dramatic fallacy: accusing...
Robie and Bradley made no miskiekn, rare feat in any game, and covered half the field in taking the starch out of the Bruin forwards. Not until the closing minutes of the game did the visitors capitalize on Harvard's halfback weakness with a gang attack which alone could succeed in beating the Crimson's final defenses...