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...with the Bremer case, Federal agents got on his trail, narrowly missed him in the Ozarks, in Cleveland. For a time he hid in a $300-per-month villa in Cuba. In the winter of 1934 he and crippled Harry Campbell shot their way out of a police trap in an Atlantic City hotel, leaving Karpis' pregnant woman and another girl behind. Seven months later he threatened the life of the Bureau of Investigation's Director John Edgar Hoover in a letter mailed from Dayton, Ohio. Last August he spent three days at Saratoga Springs, N. Y. watching...
...factory, appropriately called "The Mense Trap" was a complete prison for the men employed. Anyone who was allowed to enter remained for the duration of the war. When the factory was first opened, there was no kitchen and the entire staff was marched to eat at a hotel commandeered by the government and then marched back again...
...rope which he had used in 18 other hangings. Over Barrett's head he slipped a black satin hood, the handiwork of his sister-in-law. Then he walked calmly down the steps, confident that his 69th job would be without flaw. A deputy sheriff sprang the trap. Ten minutes later George W. Barrett was dead. At daybreak he was buried in Indianapolis' Holy Cross Cemetery...
Nobody knows better than Comrade Litvinoff that the Litvinoff-to-Roosevelt pledges were nothing but a trap to catch recognition and that, recognition having been caught, they became scraps of paper. When the U. S. Congress ascertained the facts, it refused to appropriate the necessary $1,100,000 for U. S. Embassy & Consular buildings in the Soviet Union. Today Ambassador Bullitt, highly persona grata in Moscow, constitutes almost the sole friendly link between Moscow and Washington. Last week Comrade Litvinoff, obviously more worried than he cared to admit by the attention Mr. Howard had called to the Soviet...
...Treasury also operates the Ritz of relief projects for artists, known as the Treasury Relief Art Project. TRAP's director is Olin Dows, a bristle-haired young socialite painter from Duchess County, N. Y. He has been given $550,000 with which to provide jobs for no more than 400 artists from relief rolls, to be chosen for artistic ability alone. Already TRAP artists look down their noses at their WPA brethren...