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...life-sized oil portrait of Andrew Jackson, the hardbitten, relentless foe of Federalism. Andrew Jackson was the President who introduced the "spoils system" of patronage into national government, but that did not deter Claude Gernade Bowers, editorial writer for the New York Evening World, from excoriating the "Harding Gang." As historian and first speaker of the evening, Mr. Bowers had first chance to attack the Republicans; he did it so thoroughly that subsequent speakers felt free to talk mainly about themselves or other Democrats...
Soon prison sentences totaling more than 2,000 years were imposed upon 147 culprits. All had been leading members of the dread, famed Mafia, a bandit gang once more potent in Sicily than the Italian Government. Seven of the condemned were sentenced to life imprisonment, others to sentences scaling down from 30 to 3 years. At Rome, the Fascist press triumphantly proclaimed that Il Duce has redeemed his pledge to exterminate the Mafia (TIME...
Died. Charles M. Kittle, 47, president of Sears, Roebuck & Co.; in Chicago. He worked his way from section gang water boy to senior vice president of Illinois Central Railroad from which he resigned to rule the great mail order company...
...stabs as if he were playing the role of a contemporary gangster instead of Joaquin Murrietta whose career was a trail of blood, bullets, alcohol and love for a pure sweet girl through the days of '49. There is no need to fear that Jake Hamby and his gang will be spry enough to catch and hang so gallant a jack, although they make violent efforts...
...Girl from Chicago. Little Mary Carlton, when she comes to Manhattan from her ancestral mansion in the South, tells the gang of crooks who have packed her brother off to prison for a murder he did not commit, that she comes from Chicago. In view of this admission, even her inability to smoke cigarets as if she had done it before does not convince the bad men that she is not a racketeer. Eventually, with the aid of the police and some airplanes, she saves her brother and wins the love of the detective who has been masquerading...