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...years Chicago has had six new police commissioners. Each change has heralded a fresh campaign to "clean up the city," but Chicago today is as crime-ridden as ever. Last week's news was that Alphonse ("Snorkey") Capone had organized the city's saloons into such a perfect chain that he was selling them not only their liquor supplies but everything down to ginger ale and table linen. So Chicagoans were not excited last week when Mayor Anton J. Cermak abruptly ousted Commissioner John Alcock and appointed in his place Captain James P. ("Iron Man" ) Allman. Mayor Cermak...
...Last January the crew of the submarine tender Lucia mutinied on a rumor that their Christmas leave was to be cancelled and that they were to paint ship on Sunday (TIME, Jan. 19). All papers last week harked back to the great mutiny of 1797 when the underpaid, scurvy-ridden crews off Spithead and off the Nore turned on their officers. That came in the British Navy's most glorious period. Nelson had just helped win the Battle of Cape St. Vincent. Six months after the mutiny Admiral Duncan beat the Dutch at Camperdown...
...stretch of straightaway, white-painted railing, de luxe box stalls, striped water buckets. Here performed prize mounts of Manhattan's police, a local U. S. artillery post, and various racing clubs. As a special surprise to Mr. Widener, his favorite horse, the great sprinter Osmand, was led in, ridden by Jockey Mack Garner. Mr. Widener almost sobbed with joy. Most spectacular event of the evening was a hunt tableau in which three hunters, (one, Biltmore President John McEntee Bowman's prize-winning Over There) were ridden down the track by pink-coated riders behind a pack of working...
Tight as a cocklebur Dictator-President Antonio Oscar de Fragoso Carmona stuck to the saddle of the restless Republic of Portugal last week, a saddle in which he has ridden for the past five years...
...walked spry, spare General Carmona, his jaw clenched, his head up. Government officials announced that two leaders of the revolt, Major Sarmento de Beires (who flew to Brazil in 1927) and Col. Diaz Antunes will not face a firing squad but will be sent to disintegrate in swampy, fever-ridden Portuguese West Africa...