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Last week Tom Pendergast's Police Director Otto Higgins resigned, wept at having to leave "the best police department in the country." While Kansas City wondered whether Tom Pendergast's machine was cracking up, Mayor Smith & Co. made a great to-do about closing gambling dens, putting clothes on dancers...
...indictment blackened some clouds already hanging dark over the Boss ever since Missouri Circuit Judge Allen C. Southern began to root out gambling and vice in Pendergastland (TIME, Feb. 6). The Boss had known the blow-off was coming: last month his nephew Jim Pendergast and Police Chief Otto Higgins tramped up & down Washington trying to find some one to call off Maurice Milligan. The day the indictments came down, Culprit O'Malley attended a three-hour mass in Baltimore. But as righteous Attorney-General Murphy announced last week, "no power on earth" was big enough to block Murphy...
When Adolf Hitler marched into Austria year ago "His Most Apostolic Majesty" Otto von Habsburg, 26-year-old pretender to the Austro-Hungarian throne, entered objections. Blustering Field Marshal Hermann Goring answered the objections by calling the Archduke "this comic boy." Nazi Administrator Josef Bürckel dubbed him "Otto the Last." The Nazi police issued a warrant for his arrest for high treason should "His Majesty" ever be caught in Reich territory. Otto remained in Belgium, where he has lived with his mother, onetime Empress Zita, for the last nine years. Last week in Paris, after Führer...
Among the scientists with whom Wald was associated during his training abroad, were Professors Otto Warburg, of Berlin-Dahlem, Otto Meyerhoff, of Heidelberg, and Paul Karrer, of Zurich. Wald's results are the fruits of many months of painstaking experiments with human, animal, and fish eyes...
Shortly before she left Germany, she received a visit from two Hitler Youths, ardent Nazis of the year before. They said they wanted to ski over into Czechoslovakia. Pumped for their reason, 16-year-old Otto said: "I'll now quote Herr Abraham Lincoln: 'You can fool all the people some of the time,' " etc. Later that day Otto smashed the teeth of another Hitler Youth he caught baiting an old Jewish woman, got a warm handshake from the Nazi cop who rushed him to a quiet side street, told him to scram...