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...gallows, Crippen the first murderer ever apprehended by wireless? (see p. 40). Then there was Smith, "the Brides-of-the-Bath Bluebeard." To prove how easy it was for Smith to drown his brides in his tub without a struggle, did not Sir Bernard Spilsbury all but perform that feat himself?* Ever since the discovery last summer of Brighton Trunk Murder No. 1 (TIME, July 2) and Brighton Trunk Murder No. 2, most of His Majesty's subjects have been sure that Sir Bernard Spilsbury would enable Scotland Yard to solve both mysteries. Last week came the big surprise...
...crack diving team of Henry Fitts and Bernard Merriam. It will perform against Smith and Nichols...
Last week Adolf Hitler, announcing that he was about to perform an official act of State, with his entire Cabinet and attended by the Corps Diplomatique plus Army, Navy, Air and Storm Troop bigwigs, opened "The Largest Automobile Show in the World...
...whether we have gone into one appendage of the League or whether we have gone into the League-once we are in, we are in. ... And when we are in, then, of course, all the internationalists of this land will tell of the necessity that exists for us to perform our moral obligations and, if necessary, become a part of the intrigue, the controversies, the broils and . . . ultimately the wars on the other side of the ocean...
Declaring that marriage is a "sacred ceremony," Massachusetts' pious Roman Catholic Governor James Michael Curley last fortnight forbade justices of the peace to perform that ceremony (TIME, Feb. 4). Last week the Chicago Church Federation (300 Protestant ministers) was agitated over civil marriage as performed in their city. They learned that in Marriage Court in the County Building a couple could be united in ten seconds, by paying $5 and replying affirmatively to the question "Do you take this woman (or man) whose right hand you hold, to be your lawful wedded wife (or husband)?" This ceremony was denounced...