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...first time since the bloody 1946 revolution in which the capital's citizens hanged their dictator from a lamppost. This time the capital's schoolteachers touched off the explosion by demanding higher pay to offset the government's recent currency devaluation. Within hours, a raging mob was surging through the streets denouncing Conservative President Mamerto Urriolagoitia (pronounced ooreo-la-goytcha...
Yesterday afternoon 200 of the mob stormed the local court to see that justice was brought-or not brought--upon their ringleaders. The ten were released on bail until Friday. Their excuse--water pistols seem so right in the springtime...
...spaceship Kingfisher en route to Venus, and Patrolman 49 was off to nab a gang of bank robbers. Seth and Shorty, out Texas way, were hard at work saving the cattle from a tribe of rustling redskins. A handsome young Jew named Saul of Tarsus was aiding & abetting the mob murder of another handsome youth named Stephen. All this was happening last week in the stories and cartoon strips of the spanking new London weekly Eagle, dazzlingly successful magazine brain child of a boyish, 35-year-old vicar of the Church of England...
...last job: one of his associates told the cops all about it to avoid being electrocuted at Sing Sing. It took place in 1939, after Gangbuster Tom Dewey slapped a subpoena on a onetime garment-union leader named Philip Orlofsky. Orlofsky knew a lot about the union rackets, and Mob Chieftain Louis ("Lepke") Buchalter was disturbed. He ordered Orlofsky's death. Parisi was chosen to do the honors...
Even Europeans, usually not molested in communal troubles, were not safe. Alexander Leslie Cameron, 49, president of the Bengal Chamber of Commerce, and one of the leading British businessmen in India, tried to protect a friend's Moslem bearer from a mob, was himself beaten to death...