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...seeking permission for a reorganization under the new bankruptcy law. A Manhattan newspaper promptly headlined the item: EGGS (INC.) BUSTED. A quality poultry farm handling as many as 100,000 chickens, 1,000,000 eggs a year. Eggs, Inc. sold pheasants to New York's famed restaurateur, Henri Charpentier, who insisted that they be killed on the wing. It gave them a special flavor to be shot down while tense, said he. President Edwin J. Walker of Eggs, Inc. took live birds to nearby hunt clubs, induced sportsmen to shoot them down for him. He declared last week that Eggs...
...York, May 24 Ellsworth vines of Pasadena, cal., and Bill Tilden of Philadelphia, today defeated the two French aces, Henri Cochet and Martin Plaa, in opening play of the final round robin in the Eastern Professional Tennis Championships...
...Judge Albert Prince (TIME March 5, et seq.). Suicide: Swindler Alexandre Stavisky (TIME, Jan. 15), Director Emile Blanchard of the Agricultural Service Station Jean Brunschvik, diamond merchant whose name appeared on some Stavisky check stubs (TIME, April 2). Attempted Suicide: Lawyer Raymond Hubert who jumped into the Seine and Henri Hurlaux, Assistant Prosecutor of the Court of Appeal, who tried to drink poison. Mile Taris, witness for the prosecution, tried to jump into a canal. Racing down to Lorient after the police newshawks found that young Marguerite Henriot had been murdered and she was related by marriage to Philippe Henriot...
Once before this year the Stavisky investigation harked back to the great scandal of 1914 which only the outbreak oi the World War wiped off the world's front pages. Last month Henri Rochette a swindler like Stavisky, who, more than a generation ago, bribed his way into high government immunity, cut his throat before his judges in a Paris courtroom and died just after they had sentenced him to three years in jail (TIME, April 16). Complicity in the Rochette scandal was largely the reason for the bitter press campaign which Gaston Calmette, editor of Le Figaro waged...
...square and out jumped the assistant executioners, a priest, and a scowling, square-jawed man in shirtsleeves. Again the whisper went round: "C'est lui! C'est Sarret!" Georges Alexander Sarrejani, alias Sarret, was a Trieste-born Greek who three years ago succeeded the late infamous Henri Desire Landru as France's most spectacular murderer when a M. Poncel returned from a vacation in Italy to his villa near Marseilles. M. Poncel found the dining room floor ruined by strange stains, a heap of acid-eaten rags near the garden hedge, and a horrid stinking mess...