One Big Shot Convicts Racketeers and Global Swift Triumphs
Arthur Brisbane notes a string of dramatic legal and world events. He cites Charles Lucky Luciano's 62 counts and possible prison terms, compares tax justice to crime penalties, and reflects on modern feats from aviation to Mussolini’s campaigns. The piece ends with calls for economic patriotism and ongoing Middle East tensions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dewey
Supreme Court
McCook
New York City
Charles
Lucky
Luciano
Public Debt Explained in Personal Terms for Missouri Reader
A Missouri reader’s letter discusses the U.S. public debt nearing 32 billion dollars and its impact on individuals. It traces debt history from 1857 through Hoover and Roosevelt, arguing debt shapes taxes and future emergency capacity, urging prudent spending and Jacksonian finance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Missouri
United States
Harding
Coolidge
Hoover
Treasury
President Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Andrew Jackson
White House
Western Newspaper Union
Lights of New York and Chinatown Dispatch
A column notes hardship among New York Chinatown Chinese laundrymen due to competition from large outfits and advertising. It reports a Chinatown laundrymen association quarrel turning violent, plus assorted local anecdotes about Wah Lung and Miss Sprague revealing social foibles and a theater scene with a fur cape star and a sharp quip about a tax dodge.
English Manor of Tenth Century Passed to New Ownership
The God Begott hostel in England, dating to the Tenth century, has been sold and will no longer operate as a hotel. Once owned by Aethelred and later bequeathed to St. Swithin's monastery, the Tudor manor with its half timbered 1558 main building remains largely intact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ian Winchester
Hnogland
England
Southampton
Emma
Aethelred
St. Swithin’s
Henry VIII
Winchester Cathedral
Shirred Sleeves Frock With Wide Cuffs and Bow Tie
Lovely dress features shirred sleeves wide contrasting cuffs and a jaunty bow tie neckline. Made in dotted swiss batiste or goile with two front pleats and stitchings plus a waist belt. Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1846-B serves sizes 12 to 18 with busts 30 to 38. Send fifteen cents to The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept 367 W Adams St Chicago I.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Batiste
Goile
Barbara Bell
Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
W. Adans St
Chicago
All Around ie House All Around ie House
Instructions on kitchen tips and simple food prep. Includes cinnamon toast with bananas, thickening cherries or berries in pie filling, lemon juice with grape juice drink, mahogany furniture cleaning, freezing fruit juices and ginger ale, and a lemon juice egg dip for fish.
Famous Men Test In The Mind Meter
The Mind Meter presents ten problems where a man’s name is followed by four occupations. Readers cross out the occupation in which the man is most famous, including figures such as Frank PF Merriam, Sam Parks Boser, Adolf Lorenz, Richard Wagner, Leon Errol, Lawrence Tibbett, Tom Heeney, Robert E Peary, Frank H Vizetelly, and Otis Skinner, identifying notable roles like governor golfer surgeon composer opera singer explorer lexicographer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank PF. Merriam
Sam Parks—Boser
Adolf Lorenz
Richard Wagner
Leon Errol
Lawrence Tibbett
Tom Heeney
Robert E. Peary
Frank H. Vizetelly
Otis Skinner
Dare to Say No Line in Old Temperance Song
A quip notes the line Dare to say No my boy dare to say No from an old temperance song. It suggests using the phrase when asked if you have read the latest book.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Brisbane
Fulton
Hudson River
Major Haker
Army Air Corps
Badoglio
Mussolini
Ethiopia
Rome
Constantine
Oklahoma
Kansas
Sulu
Jolo
Jamalul Kiram
Jamalul
Black Legion
Sir Samuel Hoare
Mediterranean
Haile Selassie
League of Nations
Great Britain
France
Palestine
Ring Features Syndicate, Inc
WNT Service
William Bruckart
National Press
Washington, D. C
Lights of
New York
L. L. Stevenson
Chinatown
Wah Lung
First Presbyterian Church
Anna B. Sprague
Tea Neck
N. J
Miss Sprague
Bell Syndicate
WNU Service
Associated Newspapers
WNU
By Lowell Henderson
California
Louis Meyer
Firestone
Firestone Auto Supply and Service
Yours
Voice of
N. B.C
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