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...bombed somebody, or poisoned somebody, or taken a Kanaka for a ride in the most approved gangster style, or, with some psychopathic urge, taken a little boy out into the Michigan dunes and beaten the life out of him, hadn't either bombed, or poisoned, or ridden or beaten anybody...
Proponents of the bill cried that it meant a new financial liberty for debt-ridden farmers. Opponents, including holders of farm mortgages, cried out that it was one step removed from debt repudiation, that at the least it would amount to a free six-year moratorium, a huge hand-out to the farmers at the expense of honest investors...
...Wightman Cup tennists (Helen Jacobs. Sarah Palfrey, Carolin Babcock, Josephine Cruickshank): 5 matches to 2, their series against England, for the fourth successive year; at Wimbledon. ¶Cavalcade, ridden by Mack Garner: the Detroit Derby, his fourth important stake race of the season, setting a new track record for 1 1/16 miles and adding $19,500 to his $77,000 winnings. ¶Dr. Alexander Alekhine of Paris: 15- points to 10½; a match of 26 games which started April 1 in Baden Baden, against Efim D. Bogoljubow. for the chess championship of the world; in Berlin...
...wheelbarrows of bricks and beer bottles were trundled up from the rear to throw at Guardsmen. Unemployed joined the battle. Boys in short trousers popped at the Guardsmen with BB rifles. The battered Guardsmen retaliated with barrages of tear gas, with bayonet charges. The strikers, by now a passion-ridden mob completely out of control, retreated only to come back for more. Once Guardsmen fired over their heads. Then, without orders, a Guard platoon leveled its rifles and fired. Two men dropped dead, a onetime CCC camper and an unemployed battery-shop worker. Otherwise the Guardsmen kept their heads, drove...
...thing the Stavisky investigations have done is to uncover the hideous corruption of Marseilles' local politics. Ballot boxes are regularly stuffed with names from undertakers' lists. The city is as gangster-ridden as Chicago. Its Capone, a sly ruffian named Paul Carbone, alias Venture, was arrested and accused of complicity in the Dijon murder of Judge Albert Prince. Boss of Marseilles is a one-eyed Corsican Deputy named Simon Sabiani-just Simon to most of Marseilles...