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...Please, Your Honor," whined Pauper William Nodes, 27, in a London court last week, "don't part me and the rat." The judge looked appraisingly at Nodes' pet rat in a cage on the barristers' table, frowned severely at Nodes. Clearing his throat he then did British Justice: "I sentence you, William Nodes, to six months in prison as an incorrigible rogue. The rat will be sent to a good home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Rogue's Rat | 1/22/1934 | See Source »

...Philadelphia, CWA assigned 408 men and $69,197 to improve the housing of the zoo's animals. Also, 900 men were requested from CWA for an indefinite number of days, to exterminate each and every Philadelphia rat. ¶ In Tennessee, CWA assigned to the State University one person and $30 to translate a German manuscript on plant diseases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: Guy | 1/15/1934 | See Source »

...unconscious. The mob found Holmes on the second floor. He put up a hard fight for life. Thurmond was in a cell on the third floor which had been vacated by Palo Alto's Murderer David A. Lamson (TIME, Sept. 11 & 25). He clawed the ceiling like a rat in a flooded bunker. From inside the jail two trails of blood led across the court yard, across the street, stopped beneath two trees in the park. Not far from a statue of assassinated William McKinley, the murderous kidnappers were hanged. Governor Rolph, who prides himself on his hearty Western...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GRIME: California Lesson | 12/4/1933 | See Source »

...different palates. Though the farmers may be slightly mollified, Wall Street is not. "The money-changers" are very unhappy about the whole thing. It goes against the natures of such simple idealists to be forced into the sceptic's position, nostrils dilated at the unpleasant aroma of a rat; but their hard business heads suspect that "managed currency" is just another slogan for that hardly defined but always suspicious phenomenon: inflation. The President is coming face to face with the sad fact that farmer and banker are betting on very different horses with no hope of a tie-race...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 10/25/1933 | See Source »

...denounced the whole fair practice section of the Retail Code. It was learned that Dr. Alexander Sachs of NRA's Research Division had confidentially reported to General Johnson that "stop-loss" was price-fixing and nothing more. Consumers' leagues, Granges, the American Farm Bureau Federation sniffed a rat and began to howl. To these groups price-fixing in any form meant only one thing: a deliberate attempt to gouge the public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Codes for Counters | 10/16/1933 | See Source »

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