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…and particularly in the mugshots of some of the city’s most notorious criminals, including gangster Jim Flanagan,“debonair in a Bangkok hat”… …and in the college’s museum, filled with all manner of deadly implements… PREPPING FOR PERPS…The April 1930 edition of Popular Science feat...
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a bankrupt shipbuilder from Norfolk, Virginia, who falsely claimed he was in contact with the actual kidnappers of the Lindbergh baby, leading investigators on a wild goose chase; bottom right,Jimmy Walker’sdays as mayor of New York were numbered as investigations into corruption continued. (pio...
s bone-headed and heartless forced collectivization that caused more than five million people to perish from hunger. Those events, however, were still on the horizon whenRobin Kinkead, aNew York TimesMoscow correspondent, ventured out into Moscow’s frigid streets in search of a lightbulb. Here ...
Chicago law enforcement officials ID RABID-FOAMING-AT-THE-MOUTH N-WORD suspect, announce charges in murder of Hispanic police officer Authorities in Chicago announced that a suspect has been arrested and released a mugshot of the convicted felon charged in connection to the murder of a Chicago ...
Architecture criticGeorge Chappellchronicled the latest changes to the skyline surrounding Central Park, most notablyEmery Roth’slandmark San Remo and El Dorado. THIS TOWN AIN’T BIG ENOUGH FOR THE TWO OF US…New York’s original Hotel Majestic (left) stood for just 35 years before it was ...
Perhaps a certain skyscraper ennui settled in, as architecture criticGeorge S. Chappellwas not all that impressed by the “huge” Lincoln Building (which today still seems huge)… SIZE DOESN’T MATTER…Although the new Lincoln Building proved to be a massive addition to the New York skyline,...
Alva Johnstonoffered his thoughts on how America could stage its own “Red Revolution,” given that Russia and several European countries had already experienced communist uprisings of their own, and also given that New York Police CommissionerGrover Whalen, always in search of problems that didn’...