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...Italian quarters - it was the 18th anniversary of Mussolini's march on Rome-fruit peddlers and bootblacks told enquiring reporters v/hat they thought of Italy's war on Greece, but would not give their names or addresses, lest they be accused of belonging to the quinta colonna (fifth column...
Died. Cornelius Joseph Sullivan, 62, lawyer, onetime partner of the late De Lancey Nicoll; of pneumonia; in La Quinta, Calif. With Nicoll he represented the (old) American Tobacco Co. when the Federal Government dissolved it for violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. Other clients: the Henry M. Flagler estate, James A. Stillman, Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, the New York Giants...
Only one of the five women has yet died. She was Mrs. Quinta MacDonald, 34, mother of two; died six months ago. Three of the others have led carefully restricted existences, staving off death...
...doctors, unto death. For these five there is no light in darkness except the glow of gold indemnity. Their malady is incurable. Eleven years ago, merry giggling girls of 16, 17, 18, they got jobs to help out at home, learned to paint the luminous numerals on watch faces. Quinta, Albina, and Amelia Maggia thought themselves lucky to find work in the same plant. Amelia is dead-her body was exhumed to prove that the death diagnosis was wrong but her dead bones are still luminous with the radium she swallowed. Quinta and Albina left their jobs after two years...
...Quinta. - Advanced instruction in the above branches, Germany taking the place of Saxony as the special subject...