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...affairs of Frau Anna Sacher," said the Wiener Zeitung, "have been placed under the administration of a trustee...
...friend of half the aristocracy of Europe, Frau Anna Sacher is an Austrian butcher's daughter, who ran, until last week, Vienna's stately Hotel Sacher. Short and fat, not unlike a dignified Emil Jannings in a curled wig, Frau Sacher used to move through the ancient corridors of her hotel, puffing on a long black cheroot, followed by two fat, asthmatic bulldogs. She never argued with a careless waiter or chambermaid. She boxed their ears soundly and passed...
...Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque." Poe's poverty was such that it prevented his giving away many of his books, and these two volumes are among the few known copies presented by him to other people. Bound specially for the purpose, they are inscribed "For Miss Anna and Miss Bessie Pedder, from their most sincere friend, the Author...
...crimes cannot be neatly dovetailed into the law. Anna Laura Lowe committed no crime when in 1920 she married an ancient, incompetent Creek Indian named Jackson Barnett. It was no crime for her to hire lawyers, who successfully induced Commissioner of Indian Affairs Charles H. Burke to release $1,100,000 of her husband's royalty oil riches for distribution to herself and the American Baptist Home Mission Society (TIME...
...Associate Justice Butler of the U.S. Supreme Court, who last week finished a thoroughgoing review of the Barnett case. Mr. Butler found: 1) the Interior Department had no power to give away Barnett's wealth; 2) the U. S. could sue to annul Barnett's marriage to Anna Laura Lowe; 3) suits to recover Barnett's wealth were justified; 4) nobody had been guilty of criminal conspiracy or fraud...