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...John ("Aces") Mazza, 20, petty gangster, was murdered in front of an eastside Manhattan cafeteria. In his pocket was found a printed invocation: St. Joseph, Patron Of A Happy Death, Protect Me. ¶The body of John Franzione, who with four companions killed a detective last July and later squealed on them, was found on a Bronx refuse heap. ¶Two detectives followed two gunmen into a saloon on Lexington Avenue. The gunmen held the place up, shot it out with the detectives. Fatalities: Gunman Albert Checchia and Detective Christopher W. Shueing, whose father received the Congressional Medal of Honor...
...presidential veto. Reported from the Ways & Means Committee H. R. 17054 to up veterans' loans on adjusted service certificates was snapped (363-to-37) through the House in 40 minutes. The Senate was primed for action no less quick to avert what all Bonus advocates dreaded-a pocket veto...
...must either disapprove it and thereby allow Congress a chance to repass it over his veto or permit it to become a law automatically. If the measure reaches the White House after the last ten days period, the President can kill it by doing nothing to it (i.e a pocket veto) and thus deprive Congress of a second vote before final adjournment. With the ten-day period beginning Feb. 21, the Bonus fight became chiefly a race against time to the White House...
...organized Unemployment relief and it's doing a darned good job. But . . . you don't know the law, that's all. How can we tax the rich? If I could, I would. . . . Show me a starving worker. I'd dig down into my own pocket to prevent it. Your Communist sheet, the Daily Worker, has been doing a lot of lying...
...records from which a very cultivated British voice slowly enunciated: "The grandfather is sitting in an easy chair. The grandmother is also sitting in an easy chair." etc. Very much in the background was childlike Frau Jack's quiet husband. An active stage designer, he carried in his pocket a contract to do a series of articles, crayon portraits of U. S. gangsters for the Berlin magazine Detectif. With a sound working knowledge of grandfather sitting in his easy chair and other useful phrases, Herr Bismarck was eager last week for a personal interview with Al Capone...