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Rushing to visit his wife & newborn son at the hospital, South Carolina's Governor Olin Dewitt Talmadge Johnston was knocked unconscious when his car struck the machine of Mrs. Marie Loop of Eldred, Pa., looped over three times on the road...
...sent was dumped in an ashcan, and Torrio fled to Hot Springs, Ark., to New Orleans, to the Bahamas, to Cuba, pursued by O'Banion gunmen. When he finally screwed up enough courage to return to Chicago, he was riddled with bullets after a wild chase through Loop traffic. Recovered, he went to jail for seven months for operating a brewery. Then he scurried back to Italy. On his return to the U. S. a few years later, he found that Capone was Chicago's No. 1 racketeer. Torrio retreated to New York, where his name was intermittently...
...Cambridge trolley car conductor these days, with an opportunity of running experimental trolley bus number 8001 around a specially constructed loop in the Charles River Yard. Between runs, this prize possession is kept inside the shed, but at least once an hour, some accredited conductor is allowed to climb into the control seat and take her for a trial spin...
...test of skill is provided, too, in navigating the bus around the loop. At the very start, a narrow door presents no mean obstacle, and is immediately followed by a difficult curve which exacts close concentration to keep the trolleys on their cables. Then comes the straightaway in which the maximum speed of 88 m.p.h. can almost be reached before the brakes must be applied...
...Deal have become more frequent and at the same time more bitter as the Roosevelt anesthesia has worn off. As is only natural, mistakes have been made, glaring errors have been brought to light and opposing forces throughout the country have been quick to seize on the loop-holes in the administration's program. Yet, they have, for the most part, been the work of men or parties materially interested in discrediting the Roosevelt regime. One understands attacks made by Republicans on a Democratic administration. They may have the truth of the gospels, the forces of a juggernaut and still...