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...Stavisky scandal came the holder of the highest judicial post in France, Judge Théodore Lescouvé. First President of the Court of Cassation, to tell what he knew about Stavisky, what he knew in particular about the murder of his colleague Albert Prince (TIME, March 5. et seq...
...Station plaza last June;* 6) the $200,000 payoff in the Urschel kidnapping case took place on a Kansas City boulevard; 7) City Manager Henry F. McElroy's daughter Mary was kidnapped almost from under his nose last July and ransomed for $30,000 (TIME, July 24, et seq...
...floor of the House. Four years ago New York's Red-hunting Representative Fish demonstrated how a little material could be piled into a mountain of headlines when he headed a footling House inquiry into Communist propaganda in the U. S. (TIME, June 2, 1930, et seq.). Prime difference will be that at the time of the Red hunt the U. S. and Russia were not on speaking terms...
Newspaper readers who remember the Gastonia, N. C. mill strike (TIME, Aug. 12, 1929, et seq.) will recognize bits of the ensuing trial scene. Trial highspots: the prosecution raises a laugh against a defense witness by hanging on him the old joke about getting syphilis in a toilet; the defense successfully counters by showing that a prosecution witness once got drunk, took a horse into a church. The 15 defendants were pronounced guilty; Ring leader Marvin got 25 years in jail. Harry Baumann, caught trying to set fire to his father's mill, sought a final sensation by shooting...
...m.p.h. storm. Brave Admiral Evans could not have found a lonelier spot. Full 2,000 mi. northeast lay Bechuanaland where last September he did his duty as a Briton and an officer in banishing a South African chief who had punished a white man (TIME, Sept. 25 et seq.). Four thousand miles farther on was Britain. Three thousand miles to the south was the South Pole where he had been in 1912 with Captain Scott. In ordinary weather the seas of the South Atlantic, with thousands of miles of unbroken run behind them, rear up like mountain ridges. But last...