Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...morning last week he was intercepted by Italian police, commanded to open...
...hired champion who defends his client right or wrong-such is the usual concept of a lawyer. Far different was the concept set up in Rome last week by Signor Alfredo Rocco, reverberant-voiced Minister of Justice, drafter of the new Italian Penal Code (TIME...
...little white dog whimpered in a St. Louis alley. A woman approached it, found it scrawny and starving, suddenly noticed to her horror that its lips were sewn together with heavy cord. The Humane Society of Missouri was notified. Robert F. Sellar, secretary of the society, declared last week that he had gone to the dog and instantly put it to death. From all over the country, incensed humanitarians wired promises of reward to him who should find the torturer. Last week the rewards totaled $3,000, not including a $500 reward which the Humane Society offered to the woman...
...careers of child prodigies the passing of a year may mean the loss of prodigiousness. Frail, ethereal qualities which appeal in the diminutive often seem puny when legs are longer. Hence last week the interest of a great Manhattan audience was tinged with fear as it flocked to hear Yehudi Menuhin, 12, in his first violin concert since his year abroad (TIME, Feb. 6, 1928; Jan, 7, 1929). Reluctantly many noted the inevitable change when he came on stage carrying a full-sized violin. The chubby legs were longer. The accustomed white suit had been changed for a solemn black...
Elected. John Grinnell Wetmore Husted, 34. erstwhile of Peekskill, N. Y.; to be a partner in Brown Shipley & Co. of London (first U. S. partner in that conservative house's history). His brother, James William Husted Jr., 35, was last week made a partner in Secretary of State Stimson's Manhattan law firm (Winthrop, Stimson & Aldrich...