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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...known as the "galloping Swede," has had a rags-to-riches rise: a penniless immigrant from Sweden in 1911, he became a prosperous farmer and oilman, has served one term in the state legislature, campaigned for business principles in government. His cause was helped by Bonner's arrest for drunkenness in 1950 in New Orleans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNORS: Another Landslide | 11/17/1952 | See Source »

Last week, after a ten-day investigation, the Denver Post not only exposed Newton and his sidekick as phony experts; it also dug up enough evidence to arrest Newton and a man the paper said was his Dr. Gee, Leo Ge Bauer, operator of a small electrical manufacturing shop in Phoenix, Ariz. The charge: Newton and Ge Bauer had fleeced a wealthy rancher out of $34,000 with another "scientific" discovery, a machine that could locate oil or water underground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Flying-Saucer Men | 10/27/1952 | See Source »

...exchange visit financed by the U.S. State Department. Moreover, he knew where K¶hn was hiding-a resort island in the North Sea where he was being lionized as a hero and bought all the free beer he could drink. Editor Nannen dared the British to arrest him as an accessory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: The Prisoners of Werl | 10/13/1952 | See Source »

...Grandier's enemies opened the exorcisms to the public, who were properly edified to watch the nuns scream, throw convulsions, expose their navels to the priests and to the crowd. At last, with the circus in full swing, word of it reached Richelieu. The order came quickly to arrest Grandier and try him for witchcraft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Devil with the Women | 10/6/1952 | See Source »

Bare Facts. In San Diego, the sheriff's arrest sheet on Ruby Idona Trammell read: face, flushed; gait, staggering; speech, garbled; breath, smelled of wine; eyes, bloodshot; coordination, poor; clothing, none...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 29, 1952 | 9/29/1952 | See Source »

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