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...Western was dead, two other alleged racketeers were surely dead in Brooklyn, and two more were in hospitals, struggling to keep alive, all shot since Klein's drunken revelations. Because of these shootings, District Attorney George E. Browers of Kings County dramatically gave all gangsters 48 hours to quit Brooklyn or be ousted. "Force will be met with force," said...
Long ago one George K. Spoor experimented with a primitive projection machine, started the first film distributing company, became a controlling factor in the old Essanay Co. In 1916 he quit film production but continued experiments to find new tools. Last fortnight, and again last week, Experimenter Spoor announced some new cinema devices which he had developed with the aid of two engineers ?Fred J. Lindbergh (no kin) and P. John Berggren?and which, coming from George K. Spoor, may well prove important...
...fallen off to such an extent that they now average only $3,000 a year. So, last week, reported the Rev. Charles Stelzle, onetime printing press machinist, long an investigator of sociological and religious problems, now a publicist. He had queried 100 leading evangelists on their business. Thirty had quit because they no longer could make a living in the profession...
...than in any other of the past ten years except 1928. At the same time, the Department let it be known that 27 Air Corps officers had resigned-biggest annual depletion in the history of the Corps. And last week the Navy admitted that 13 of its aviators had quit the service in the calendar year 1929. Most of the 40 men thus out of the nation's air force went to commercial flying jobs paying salaries much higher than the Government can afford...
...Chairman Huston had no intention of going. He grew obstinate and defiant, insisted he would never "quit under fire." He proceeded to make long range plans for the fall campaign. President Hoover fortnight ago told him to his face that party sentiment demanded his retirement, but hesitated to ask for his resignation, lest Mr. Huston stubbornly refuse to give it and force a public issue with the White House...