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...thrift. Fifty men and women, butchers, grocers, seamstresses, shoemakers, came in the first night to deposit savings of $2,020 which later were kept in the bank's two tiny leather-covered chests. A mutual savings institution for the poor and downtrodden, Bowery Savings was heavy with the smell of Sunday School and the mission society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Downtown | 6/11/1934 | See Source »

...thing in this country can touch the Tavern's bar in the matter of length and the only serious rival outside is Crawford's 161-foot monster that attracted thousands along with the smell of stables to Tia Juaua, Mexico...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Uncle Sam's Longest Bar, 145 Feet in Length, To Be Exact, Boston's Latest Claim to Renown | 4/16/1934 | See Source »

...retired, who has spent 42 of his 75 years at sea: "The sea is fine when viewed from the shore but I am unable to understand how men can slop around in small boats and like it better the wetter they get and the stronger they smell of fish. . . . I never liked going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 9, 1934 | 4/9/1934 | See Source »

Said a judge in Crown Point: "This case is beginning to smell." The resignation of Sheriff Lillian Holley, from whose jail Dillinger escaped, was demanded by the county board which threatened to appeal to Governor McNutt if she refused. Democrats throughout Indiana feared that the public reaction to Dillinger's escape would cost their party a fat wad of votes in the next election. Ridicule, most dangerous of all political weapons, was already at work. A Captain of the State Police received a book entitled How to Be a Detective...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: In a Fugitive's Wake | 3/19/1934 | See Source »

...himself by removing his prison clothes on top of the bus and substituting them for the suit of one of the passengers. On we go further west, and it is jealous Legs who first discovers that his rival is the convict. On we go still further west and the smell of the Rockies becomes more predominant. With a wow of an ending, numerous snow bound school children are rescued by the fugitive from justice, pretty Letty gets rid of her gangster admirer who admits defeat with a broad smile, and Porter gets a pardon...

Author: By G. R. C., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 3/15/1934 | See Source »

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