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...Stephens, Negro, 21, 5 ft. 7 in., for breaking jail, for attacking park couples. Warning: "Vicious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Badly Wanted' | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

...City Hall, down the steps. A trolley was passing on St. Charles St. The crowd jerked off its rod, stoned in its windows, punched up its "scab" motorman. For violating a Federal injunction protecting Public Service property, three men were seized by U. S. marshals, sentenced to jail by U. S. Circuit Court Judge Rufus Foster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Blood in New Orleans | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

Clyde Reed (alias Arthur L. Barrett), 30, 6 ft., slender, brown eyes and hair, wanted for highway robbery. He escaped from officers at Kansas City, from a Knoxville, Tenn., jail and from the Tennessee penitentiary. Warning: "Desperate criminal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Badly Wanted' | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

...With Songs (Warner). The sob that rose in Al Jolson's throat as he sang beside the bedside of Davy Lee in other pictures has grown louder, deeper. Now that sob, heard round the world, constitutes his whole repertory. In Say It With Songs he sings in jail, torn from his young wife, his little son, caroling to fellow-prisoners about the birds, the springtime. He has accidentally killed a fellow who was making advances to his wife. As soon as he is free a truck hurts Davy Lee and the wandering story that is a framework...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Aug. 19, 1929 | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

Angry depositors, just told by the receiver that they might eventually receive 20? instead of 5? or 10? on the dollar, added four more items to the sum of what happens to bad bankers. Each item was an egg thrown at the three manacled convicts on their way to jail. One egg smashed on James Rae Clarke's straw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Simple Men | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

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