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...Sundays while your wife is in church?" the preacher asked him. "Breed mares, geld colts, and build hogpens. I can always find some pleasant way to pass the time." There was mysterious Jerry Billings, Father's gardener, whose trial and ten-year sentence for arson was one of the high points of Country Lawyer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nostalgia | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

...live Russia!" Of six people killed and 19 wounded, when police fired on the crowd, the Nazi-controlled Paris press growled, "Jews and Communists!" Same day, two miles away in the traditionally Red St. Denis district, police quelled another roaring riot. Following day, Nazi authorities revealed a wave of arson was sweeping both zones in France, issued a blunt warning to Communist saboteurs and propagandists that they were "liable to the death penalty." Latest arson victims: three large factories producing German war supplies. Train wrecks were multiplying so rapidly that Paris police posted 1,000,000 francs for information which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The New Disorder | 8/25/1941 | See Source »

...also denies that Belle Starr (originally Myra Belle Shirley) committed any worse crimes than larceny and mischievous arson. She loved horses and firearms and handled them admirably, was a constant consort of outlaws, but apparently never killed anyone herself. Not even her most ardent admirers called her handsome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Petticoat Terror | 6/2/1941 | See Source »

...Guayaquil, Ecuador, a few hours after German Vice Consul Juan Ruperti had visited the German steamer Cerigo, an Ecuadorian boarding party tried to seize her. Arson beat them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Axis Against Axis | 4/14/1941 | See Source »

...finalists, in the order that they will speak, are: Robert B. Nichols '41, William H. Hughes, Jr. '41, John W. Sullivan '43, Philip Thayer '41, Arson E. Charles '42, David D. Henry '41, Leon S. Lyson '41, Harry Kupperstein '41, Richard L. Weinberg '43, and Stanley A. Freedman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPEAKING CONTEST WILL BE WELL BE WEDNESDAY | 3/24/1941 | See Source »

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