Word: methods
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Manhattan the police department announced it would weed out criminal aliens from the daily lineup, turn them over to the Federal agency for deportation. As part of the Department of Labor's effort, Tony ("Mops") Volpe was seized on a deportation warrant in Chicago. Courts stuck to their method of jailing criminals on income tax evasion charges. In Albany, N. Y., papers of incorporation were filed for, the Anti-Gang League of America. Purpose: to urge the nation's law-abiding citizenry to war on crime. Rallying cry: "It's on the spot...
...doubted last week whether he ever actually made much money, but with all the nerve in the world he rode high on the wave of French inflation, established Banque Oustric et Cie, later was able to buy control of the Banque Adam, the oldest bank in France. Then his method was the old established one of buying out a number of companies in the same industry-shoe companies were at first his favorite-consolidating them, selling stock in the merger at four or five times its actual value. Came the Wall Street crash and World Depression. Banque Adam, Oustric...
...China natives have been made bishops, a far-reaching method of strengthening the church anywhere. The Pope's policy is to have a native clergy in all regions...
CRIME AND DESTINY-Johannes Lange -Paper Books (50?). Which is more important, heredity or environment? Johannes Lange is a German and therefore methodical. He is a criminologist and therefore curious about human behavior. Lange had heard many an argument about heredity v. environment, knew that Sir Francis Gallon in 1876 had tried to show heredity prevails, by examining the histories of twins. Skeptical of Galton's extremist conclusions, Herr Professor Lange decided to adopt Galton's method but without preconceived ideas. With painstaking cunning he set about gathering data on twins one or both of whom...
...lethargy. Vil lain Heyward also covets the affections of Miss Graham (Harry Dunham), daughter of Professor Graham (James Henry Breasted Jr., son of famed Orientalist Breasted of the University of Chicago). He is thwarted by handsome Bruce Pelham (James Stewart). The plot then skips 100 years by the simple method of having Mr. Logan fall off a building and lapse into a coma. Best feature of the futuristic sequences is a ballet mecanique, led by blond and birdlike Mr. Dunham. Premiere of The Tiger Smiles was held in Princeton at the handsome new McCarter Theatre. Not since the old casino...