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...home or office. Last week, when he failed to appear in court to answer the speeding charge, Judge Walter J. Casey promptly issued an order for his arrest. In the House Office Building the Washington Representative gabbled to reporters about Congressional immunity, snorted that Judge Casey could "go to hell." When a police sergeant appeared to arrest him, he told the officer that his writ could not be served on Federal property. Then Zioncheck abruptly changed his mind, got in his roadster with the sergeant, whizzed away toward court. After a few blocks Representative Zioncheck swung his car around without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Seattle's Scuffler | 5/4/1936 | See Source »

...back in the appropriation bill. "I would not revive, by any act or vote of mine," cried Democratic Leader Joseph Taylor Robinson, Arkansas, "one hope in the bosom of a gangster by withholding the means that are necessary to pursue him around this earth, to the very gates of Hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Old Creepy | 5/4/1936 | See Source »

...give you an inside picture of a man who gets $100,000 a year," exploded Montgomery Ward's President Sewell Avery last week at the company's annual meeting. "You shareholders turn over to me 100,000 cold dollars, which in your language is a hell of a lot. The income tax reduced it by about $70,000. If I were to save all that is left and the inevitable should come, the inheritance tax would be applied and I would leave my heirs an estate of something over $12,000. "Now, damn you, am I getting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: $ 100,000 Picture | 5/4/1936 | See Source »

...Cook County. But, as a whacking rebuke to the rule of Bosses Kelly and Nash, downstate counties turned in a lead of 310,000 for Horner, insured him the nomination by 150,000 votes. Asked if he would now support Horner in November, Mayor Kelly snarled: "How the hell should I know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ILLINOIS: Mangled Machine | 4/27/1936 | See Source »

...There are five other "Pops" in his division. Most Interstate drivers look like wrestlers because the company's minimum weight limit is 160 Ib. Haselwood is just over the line with 164. He is married, childless, makes about $225 per month. The one time he ever drove "like hell" was when a woman in his bus bore a baby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Bumpless Busser | 4/27/1936 | See Source »

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