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October 5, 1935

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LADY IN CREPE.

PROFILE of Anna Lonergan who loves to tell about dock wars & the trigger work of her two husbands, Wild Bill Lovett & Matty Martin, and that of her brother…

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School Days.

St. Clair McKelway

Reporter at Large about a visit to Public School No. 165, an average Manhattan school-not as overcrowded as some of them are with a smaller proportion of …

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