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Last June Chicago police rounded up many a middleman, announced that they had smashed a "million dollar" arson ring. Three weeks ago they decided to tidy up the last stray clue by picking up fat Bertha, whose only connection with the case seemed to be that her son-in-law had been arrested. Much to their surprise, she began to talk. Last week she was still talking, spouting a voluble stream of names, addresses, dates, fees...
...pledge on parchment however fine, Louis Barthou would prefer to put his trust. "The solemn promise of Germany," he has said, "is not enough for me." Last week he announced that next month he expects to confer with Benito Mussolini in Rome, seeking Italy's signature for his ring around Germany...
...pull up and the child with a breathless curtsy plumped her posies into Princess Marina's lap. At Prince George's apartments in St. James's Palace, the Princess and her parents spent an hour, then left with him for Balmoral Castle. As yet Marina had no engagement ring, since George had found nothing suitable in the Balkans where he wooed her (TIME. Sept. 10). Last week His Royal Highness ordered in London a superb Kashmir sapphire, supported by two oblong diamonds in a platinum setting. ¶ When Scottish journalists dryly observed that Prince George is in fact a commoner...
...February 1933. Principal figures in that fantastic trial were Defendant Marinus van der Lubbe, a young Dutchman who seemed to be in a drugged stupor; Defendant George Dimitroff, a fiery, grim-lipped Bulgarian who mocked the proceedings, badgered the prosecution; gaudy, bull-necked Prussian Premier Hermann Wilhelm Göring, who, taunted by Dimitroff, flew into a trembling, sweating fury, shrieked: "I am not afraid of you, you rascal! You have reason to fear that I'll catch you when you're out of prison! You dirty rascal! You dirty rascal" (TIME...
...demanded a week's delay to celebrate Rosh haShanah. Last week both fighters resumed training, weighed in for the fourth time. Rain caused a fourth postponement. Two days later, on a cold cloudy evening, they climbed through the ropes of Madison Square Garden's Long Island City ring and finally began to fight. Anxious to see whether McLarnin could preserve his record of never having lost a return bout to a fighter who had previously defeated him, a crowd of 25,000 watched Ross flick harmless, showy punches at McLarnin's left eye, while McLarnin waited...