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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speedy German liner Bremen, was perturbed as he bustled his third shipload of passengers across the Atlantic, bound for New York. Some thief was stealing jewelry from the passengers' cabins; $25,000 worth was missing without a clue. With 600 stewards aboard, most of whom were as yet unknown to the officers, it looked like a hopeless case. Capt. Ziegenbein assembled 50 stewards whom the officers did know by sight, formed a ''vigilance committee." Before the Bremen docked, all the jewelry was recovered from the clutches of one Hans Barklage, a shrewd thief in a steward's uniform, wearing...
Atlanta. The unknown murderers of Robert Brandon, mortician, and Prof. Alexander Hamilton Johnson of Hartwell, slain during the convention of the National Education Association in June...
...Lion called for documents, ink and paper, set about completing the reports in his clear, precise, almost microscopic hand. So many huge baskets and bouquets arrived that when the invalid's room was full Mme. Poincare ordered the surplus sent, not without vanity, to deck the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier...
...began as a literary hoax. The Berliner Tageblatt in 1924 received and printed a series of satiric poems signed by one J. L. Wetcheek, "famed" U. S. poet, translated into German by Lion (Power) Feuchtwanger. Soon, however, someone discovered that Wetcheek was unknown to U. S. Kultur, that wet-cheek, moreover, was a literal translation of Feuchtwanger. Hoaxes will out. Said Author Feucht wanger, dehoaxed: "If these poems, to some extent, are an attempt to put Babbitt into lyrics, I certainly do not claim to be representative of America, a country I do not know. I wanted...
...agents of the Jugoslav-Secret Police scurried out from Belgrade they questioned hundreds of peasants, found the boy who had heard someone cry, "Don't touch me. Milica!" Cogitating wisely, the detectives soon evolved a theory. Baroness Irma Molnar, they said with conviction, was strangled by a "woman unknown," probably "named or nicknamed Milica...