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...Paso, on her way to Spokane, Mob-land's pin-up moll Virginia Hill, whose Austrian ski-instructor husband Hans Hauser has been ordered to leave the country, turned her temper on some unarmed reporters, slapped one, slugged another with her spike heel, then gave a statement: "The happiest day of my life will be when I leave this damn country." When her plane put down in Denver, she took a swing at the nearest stranger, apologized when she found the man was not another reporter, but merely an investigator from the District Attorney's office who wanted...
Twenty-five minutes later, after the treasure had been found on Snell Isle, Timesmen began to tot up the results of their promotion stunt: six people were injured in auto accidents; several women fainted in the mob scene at the Times building; one woman, pacing off the clue in the dark, walked out into Boca Ciega Bay and had to be pulled out; four people had to be dragged out of waist-deep mud; the crowd ripped up stakes on a building site, which will now have to be resurveyed. But the Times seemed to think it was all worth...
...company called in Allan Pinkerton, head of a small Chicago detective agency that was already using such new methods as infiltrating bandit gangs and keeping an elaborate file of criminal information. Soon the Pinkertons had all the outlaw Renos behind bars. While three of them were awaiting trial, a mob of vigilantes strung them...
...obvious that we are now living in a time of anxiety ... all such periods generate forces of reaction," he said. He differentiated between conservatism--which "leans heavily on due process of law"--and reaction, "which appeals to the mob spirit and operates by intimidation...
...with your whims--immediate and future--Is the crux of the perfect line." Or so said "Vanity Fair," a magazine which was avid reading material for the Class of '26. Other literati were getting free seats to "Oedipus Rex" at the Opera House by being part of a Theban mob which ran up and down the theatre during one scene. "I think that Harvard students make a very creditable mob..." the show's director said...