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...Madeiros, respited along with Messrs. Sacco & Vanzetti, is to be electrocuted for the murder, in November, 1924, of a bank cashier. He was a member of a bandit group known as the Morelli gang, has claimed that this gang murdered the South Braintree (Mass.) paymaster and guard for whose deaths Messrs. Sacco & Vanzetti are sentenced to die. He has sworn that neither Mr. Sacco nor Mr. Vanzetti belonged to the Morelli gang, nor were they in any way involved in the South Braintree crime. Mr. Madeiros was first sentenced to be executed in September, 1926, but his connection with...
...like all Mr. Sinclair's stories, has appeared at length in the newspapers. Also it has been picked up and messed with for its political content by Samuel Hopkins Adams, a third-rate novelist, author of Revelry. It is the story of the Oil scandal, the Ohio Gang and the late President Harding, dragged out again and jumbled in with a lot of other sensational copy - the evangelic vaga ries of Aimee Semple McPherson, athletic professionalism at the University of Southern California, high class prostitution at Hollywood, California's "Reds," labor college? anti-syndicalism "outrages" - structurally built...
They are popularly called the Whoops Sisters, having been formally christened only for presentation in this book. Manholes, gang-planks and revolving doors make you think of them. Also any raucous indelicacy where none but the innocent bystander is embarrassed...
...Four kilometres from Salas, a gang of Catholic extremists attacked my train which traveled ahead of the Juarez passenger train. The fight lasted half an hour and the enemy fled when they noticed they were attacking a military instead of a passenger train...
...experience with German students and French students is that they gather together in knipes or corps or burschenschaften with a common table for the gang. English university students, of course, take their meals together in college halls, and that is conidered one of the great privileges. Harvard spirit is nothing if it is not a common spirit, a unified spirit and a spirit of friendship with a group of other men, such as educated men with intellectual interests will form and will enjoy all the rest of their lives...