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...found Mrs. Krynine, dressed in blue cotton and canvas shoes, in a squalid, one-room, fourth-story Moscow flat. She said: "I am 48 and I want to live, but only if I can be with my son and husband." Professor Krynine said the Herald Tribune interview was the longest communication he had had from her in several years...
...them over the unbroken forests of Siberia and the wilderness from Nome to Edmonton, Canada, and then they might need time to spare. ... In a little more than two hours they were off again, with a wave of the hand, into that part of the East where miles are longest and life is scarcest...
...last week, after a criminal trial which lasted three months-the longest in the history of New York county-justice was meted out to the other four. All save Pollock, on whom the jury could not agree, were found guilty, liable to seven years in prison, $1,000 fine. They were remanded to jail without bail. The deal for which the culprits were held responsible was selected from a host of other shady practices by which the bank's officers, panic-stricken by the 1929 stockmarket crash, guided the institution to ruin. It was a game of financial ring...
...Biggest, longest, most exciting debate of the week was that on Conservative Leader Stanley Baldwin's motion censuring the Labor Government for failure to meet the unemployment crisis. In a House hushed and tense, the Prime Minister warned that if this motion passed, he would at once advise George V to dissolve Parliament and order a general election...
...Dutch Colonial administration, and to foster trade, the Navy Department dropped the subject. But to millions of brown & yellow natives, to thousands of white residents in the East Indies, the visit of the Big White Governor & children was news, fun, sufficient excuse for brief but lavish festivities. The longest while that the Davises remained in any one place up to last weekend, was 92 hours...