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...Allentown, Pa., Erma Schank jumped out of a window, killed herself because she knew a man would call to ask her questions about something she had lied about 20 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Stock-taking | 4/14/1930 | See Source »

...year ago a carpenter at work on the Pittsburgher Hotel, owned by Secretary of the Treasury Mellon and his brother Richard Beatty Mellon, dropped a hammer. It fell through a large plate-glass window in the Frick Building next door. Flying glass cut a 23-inch gash, severed a vertebra, in the back of Mary Hahn, 23, cigar vendor. Last week, after the Mellon lawyers had admitted liability, an Allegheny county jury awarded Miss Hahn $102,427 in damages. The Mellons, through counsel, protested the verdict was excessive, appealed for a new trial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Record Damages | 4/14/1930 | See Source »

...afternoon last week two well-known Yazooans stood talking near the corner of Jefferson and Main, in front of the flyspecked window of Nector's Restaurant, where the town's bachelors go to drink their breakfast Coca-Cola. One was Mayor John T. Stricklin, oldtime politician. The other was Dentist R. E. Hawkins whom white-thatched, bespectacled Frank R. Birdsall, member of the State tax commission, editor & publisher of three-times-a-week Sentinel had supported in February's mayoralty election. Dentist Hawkins lost the election but through no fault of Editor Birdsall. The Sentinel had bitterly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: On Main Street | 4/14/1930 | See Source »

...Manhattan, police found a small hole in the window of a store. Inside the store they found a tiny man, James McCauley, who admitted that with his partner, tiny Leslie Hahr, he had burgled many stores, using entrances and exits impassable to full-sized burglars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Dopes | 4/7/1930 | See Source »

Editor Silverman's own particular province is largely bounded by a window facing Manhattan's West 46th Street in which he sits on a dais-like structure. Across from him sits his son Sid to whom he gave half his paper last year. As much a part of him as Son Sid is Sime Silverman's Variety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Little Accident | 4/7/1930 | See Source »

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