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...delegates left Ottawa for the official opening of the Welland Ship Canal between Lakes Erie & Ontario police heard of a plot to assassinate James Henry Thomas, British Secretary of State for Dominions. Orders went out for the arrest of "a Sinn Feiner of the most radical type -a slight, ruddy-faced Irishman with a broad, noticeable nose"-a description which, except for the nationality, might also be applied to Mr. Thomas. In Toronto was apprehended one Dan Malone, who said it was a "frame...
...Capitol. Wholesale warehouses, a cheap hotel, automobile showrooms, a Chinese restaurant and an undertaking shop occupied the row of old ugly brick buildings on this site. The U. S. had bought up the land as part of its plan to beautify the Federal City (TIME. May 6, 1929). The plot was to be converted into a park. Wreckers had knocked the walls out of the buildings when the B. E. F. began to arrive last May. Brigadier General Pelham Glassford. Washington's long-legged, kindly police chief, arranged to halt demolition, have veterans quartered in the skeletonized buildings. With Congress...
Like Democrats and Republicans, Socialists mix politics and picnics, forensics and fun. Some 25,000 of them last week flocked to Ulmer Park, a big bare, boarded plot near Brooklyn's Coney Island, for an all-day political outing to start their party's national campaign. Working families brought boxes of coarse sandwiches, pickles and fruit. Hot dog stands did a sizzling business. Youngsters played on swings, rode the merry-go-round. Their parents lolled on newspapers listening to band music or strolled off to watch a soccer game. Trade groups sang songs. Broadway performers gave a free show...
...Last Mile (World Wide) is a querulous picture of life in the deathhouse. John Wexley's play, based on a deathhouse convict's actual diary and news reports of several prison breaks, was angrily realistic. The cinema has omitted the anger and realism, added hope rays and a new plot...
...gangsters who are in a position to prove that Howard Phillips is innocent. The warden uses a convenient telephone to tell Preston Foster that his friend Phillips has been proved innocent, will be reprieved if they all surrender. Foster agrees for the sake of the picture's plot, walks out into the guards' hail of bullets. Most of the harsh ironies of the play, such as the scene between the "Killer"' and the prison chaplain, are omitted...