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...week at Syracuse, N. Y. for evading $92,103.34 in income taxes on $481,637.35 made in 1929-31 from "various unlawful business enterprises and rackets," he volunteered to reporters a partial biography. He is 33, was born in Manhattan's Yorkville, quit grammar school after the sixth grade, became a printer and pressman, then a roofer, a trade he abandoned when he was 17. Here the onetime master of The Bronx beerage, reputed boss of the policy game racket and the last of the great Prohibition Era gangsters left alive or at liberty, stopped, grinned. "You fellows will...
...Merwin and Lou Liggett were boys together on the streets of Detroit. Then their ways parted for 25 years; when they met again they had both made the grade. Liggett's career has enough forge-ahead stuff for three Horatio Alger stories. His Scottish-Dutch ancestry gave him a big body, unbounded assurance, tireless ambition. By the time he was 21 he had a house, a wife, a ponycart and $7,000 in the bank. His first independent venture, with a bankrupt store, was typical. Overnight he painted long rows of red footsteps leading to his shop, was arrested...
...youngsters over 200 yards of right-of-way (see p. 32). That news provided him with a jumping-off spot for a new task: the job of "personally" spending $4,880,000,000 on work relief. Same day he announced that $200,000,000 would be spent in eliminating grade crossings on main-line tracks...
That afternoon President Roosevelt announced that $200,000,000 of Federal relief money would be spent to bridge over and tunnel under grade crossings...
Died. "Fireman Jim Flynn" (Andrew Chiariglone), 55, heavyweight, only boxer ever to knock out Jack Dempsey; of heart disease; in Los Angeles. Twice defeated by Negro Jack Johnson, Flynn became a trial horse for heavyweights of the ''White Hope" period, was on the down grade when he managed to floor Dempsey in one round in 1917. Next year Dempsey, on his way to championship, knocked out Flynn in one round...