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...pretty little mannikin who led him straight to the Orleans pawnshop and a cardboard box containing gems valued at $78,000 which Stavisky was in the habit of putting up from time to time for rush loans. During the week two men closely connected with the case attempted to commit suicide. Scrabbling through the Stavisky correspondence, investigators discovered a letter to Stavisky with the salutation "Cher Monsieur et Bon Ami-", supposed to have been written by Henri Hurlaux, assistant prosecuting attorney of the Court of Appeal. White-chinned old Henri Chéron, Minister of Justice, promptly removed good Friend...
...Sprague '97, Converse Professor of Banking and Finance, and former assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury, speaking before an audience in the Senior Common Room of Winthrop House last night. "We become very angry and disagreeable when other nations do things which displease us, and yet we commit extremely unreasonable acts and think nothing...
...first place, there are too many crimes committed. In times like these there are people who must steal in order to live, and there are always many hardened criminals for whom there is no remedy but jail. Nothing can be done about these. But when there are young men and boys who commit horrible crimes "just for the thrill," much can, and should be done. Movies and novels have portrayed the criminal as a romantic figure, with the result that there is a tendency to admire and even envy him instead of despising him. It is this tendency which...
...moment I can only commit myself on one point-it is a selachian [shark and ray family]. ... As for the individual characteristics of the monster, it is possible we are in the presence of an unknown species. C'est epatant...
...long to live. A prisoner on an island in the Imperial City was her nephew, the 37-year-old Emperor Kuang Hsu whose offense had been to attempt to modernize China and rid it of the burden of its old mandarins by the device of asking them all to commit suicide. On Nov. 14, 1908 two of the Old Empress's guards are said to have broken into Kuang Hsu's apartments and strangled him. As his successor the old lady had picked Pu Yi, the chubby little son of her nephew Prince Chun...