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...Francisco, Federal Judge John S. Partridge threw out evidence obtained against an alleged bootlegger in a raid. He did so because the raid was conducted under a search warrant sworn out by a Prohibition agent under an assumed name. Said the court: "No sworn affidavit that deliberately misstates facts will be recognized by this court." Federal agents have been swearing out search warrants under assumed names in order to hide their identity and thereby maintain their usefulness. The action of Judge Partridge will probably result in the dismissal of several hundred cases against alleged bootleggers in which warrants were sworn...
TIME Madison, Wis. New York, N. Y. July 14, 1925. Sirs: In your editing article on Sir William Osler (TIME, July 13, 1925), you say that at the Barrie Grammar School he "threw a cricket ball 115 yd. -a throw never beaten, at least by an amateur.' " I beg, modestly, to offer a correction. At the field day sports, University of Wisconsin, in 1884, I threw a baseball 384 ft. 1 in., or 39 ft. 1 in. farther than the Osler record. Chicago, Milwaukee and Madison papers of that day published the fact; and before me is a copy...
...introduced to the Barrie Grammar School and there threw a cricket ball 115 yards-"a throw never beaten, at least by an amateur...
...Brooklyn, one Christine Garcia, 6-ft.-2-in., 200-lb. Porto Rican, got home from work, took umbrage at the music his sister was playing on the phonograph, tossed the phonograph out of the window, barked his shins on a table, threw the table after the phonograph, went from room to room performing feats. His sister ran for a policeman. Mr. Garcia knocked down the peaked bluecoat. Came another. Mr. Garcia bit him; he hit Mr. Garcia with a blackjack; Mr. Garcia dived from the window into the clutches of two more officers who lugged him, roaring, off to jail...
Rotarians were hit with snowballs. Rotarians threw snowballs. The snow came in box cars from the virgin peaks of Colorado; bathing beauties, cops, were pelted in the streets of Cleveland, warm with July sunlight; the Rotarians loosed their inhibitions by throwing it around. More inhibitions were launched in a song...