Joe Barry faces bootlegger impersonation for penitentiary risk
In New York country youth Joe Barry, living as a poor rooming house caretaker and restaurant accordion player, is lured by a stranger named Martin to impersonate a bootlegger. Offered $10,000 and $1,000 advance, Barry hesitates but later deposits $800 under the name Joseph Bradley as he walks toward a possible circus distraction.
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Joe Barry
New York
Louis Bertolini
Bertolini
Joe
Martin
Joseph Bradley
Circus Voices and a New Chance for Bradley
Joe Barry meets Sue Dayton after striking up a tune on her valuable accordion. She explains her act needs inspiration and hints at a new role for him in the circus, possibly alongside her uncle Dan and Blackie Jordan. Bradley considers his fitting in this evolving act and asks for a chance to sing and play.
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Joe Barry
Uncle Dan
Dayton
Sue Dayton
Dad
Blackie Jordan
Joe
Lombardi
Blackie
Pierrette
Dan
Big Top
Sue
Bradley
May Day Custom Mentioned in 1754 Gentleman's Magazine
The passage notes a May morning custom where travelers gave inn ribbon adornments to a wagoner, explaining how the bright ribbons dulled the horses’ vision and linked to the proverb about a horse being “as fine as.”
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Gentleman’s Magazine
London
Art Treasure at Greiz Palace in Thuringia
The Greiz summer palace of Princess Reuss in Thuringia houses a rich art collection led by 6 000 copper engravings including 800 mezzotints after Reynolds. Counterparts exist only in the British Museum. The collection was amassed by Princess Elizabeth, daughter of King George II of England.
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Princess Reuss
Greiz
Thuringia
Sakon Erzgebirge
Joshua Reynolds
British Museum
Elizabeth
George II of
England
Hoover plans to stabilize banks and extend credit
President Hoover met with leading lawmakers to push a private $500 million banking corporation to buy insolvent banks’ frozen paper and extend credit. He also urged liberalized rediscount limits, expanded federal farm credit, and discussed a Pan American moratorium with France.
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Hoover
White House
Senate
House
Reserve Board
Federal Land Bank
Premier Laval
France
Washington
War Finance Corporation
La Guardia Proposes Tax Revision Aimed at 750 Million Boost
Representative La Guardia of New York announced plans to introduce a tax revision bill in the coming session to raise about 750 million dollars annually. The proposal would increase rates on higher incomes and inheritances, and add a 10 percent levy on autos, airplanes, and yachts, excluding trucks, buses, and taxicabs.
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Claude A. Swanson
Virginia
Hoover
United States
America
Swanson
Great Britain
LA Guardia
New York
Congress
Treasury
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Courtney Ryley Cooper
Cwnu Service
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Nation
Edward W. Pickard
Mexico
American Federation of Labor
Vancouver
B. C
William Green
Executive Council
Employers and Labor
Dwight W. Morrow
Englewood
N. J
New Jersey
Ambassador Dawes
Morrow
Charles A. Lindbergh
China
Amherst
Columbia Law School
J. P. Morgan & Co
Lindbergh
Sen. Morrow
Prceii America
Pan-American Commercial Congress
Robert P. Lamont
Silas 4 H. Strawn
Chamber of Commerce of the
Luis Fiore
Buenos Aires
Lamont
Sen. Swanson
Japan
Pius XI
Guardian Angels
District of Columbia
James Cannon, Jr
Ada L. Burroughs
Miss Burroughs
Anti- Smith Committee
Leo A. Rover
James i . Cannon, Jr
House of Representatives
State
Gerald P. Nye
Clyde Pangborn
Hugh Herndon, Jr
Atlantic
Samushiro Beach
Dutch Harbor
Seattle
Mt. Ranier
Wenatchee
Wash
Pangborn
Apple Country
Asahi
Rance
Yorktown
Marshal Henri Petain
Verdun
Duquesne
Suffern
Marquis de Grasse
Marquis de Rochambeau
D'Oilone
Duc de Noailles
M. Xavier de Rochambeau
Marshal Pet
MacDonald
Julius Curtius
Germany
Bruening
von Hindenburg
Western Newspaper Union
R. P. Lamont
Utica
N. Y
Charles Merritt
Europe
ASTO
Citbilan Castoria
Garfield
St. Louis
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