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Under Pennsy's strict rules Mr. Atterbury would have had to retire anyway next January, when he will be 70. The first five years of his management were the last five years of the post-War boom. Like other railroad men of that era, he tossed about his railroad's millions in the great game of trading, for "strategic" reasons, in control of other lines. Pennsylvania's investments in Lehigh Valley and Wabash alone cost $106,000,000. At today's prices those holdings are worth about $4,000,000⊕ Mr. Atterbury's personal...
...companion, Marian King, 23. Miss King stabbed him in the heart. Pierce pulled the knife out of his heart, folded it and put it back in his pocket, handed the girl his wallet, said, "Will you pay the check?" With a roomful of patrons watching him in strict silence, Pierce took five steps toward the door, fell down dead. "That, gentlemen," Miss King told police, "is the way a gentleman dies...
...ways of His Majesty's Government. Sir John had expected to go to Berlin next Sunday and offer Adolf Hitler some easement from the Treaty of Versailles as part of a bargain. In exchange for the easement Germany was to agree to rearm without exceeding certain strict limitations, return to the League of Nations, sign the Eastern Locarno Pact and adhere to a general European pledge to resist "unprovoked air aggression" (TIME, Feb. 11). Instead of which Hitler had torn up the diplomatic pack of cards and reached for the jack pot. The game was over...
...requirements the first year, he keeps on plodding around with the "elephant squad" until he can. Dancing Master Vizay-"The Professor" to his charges-spent four months every year at the Academy, where his father had taught dancing before him, was a stickler for erect carriage, measured glide and strict ballroom decorum. Off duty, he was a great favorite with the Point's baseball fans. His encyclopedic knowledge of the affairs of the major leagues complemented an equally amazing acquaintance with vital statistics of the American Association. ''The Professor" was for many years during the summer months...
Livingston Hall, assistant professor of Law and formerly Assistant United States Attorney for Southern New York in 1931 and 1932, has an article entitled, "Strict or Liberal Construction of Penal Statutes...