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...precisely this same comment which is called for if we sit still and watch assault, arson and murder on a huge national and international scale and do nothing about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESS | 10/28/1939 | See Source »

...unbeautiful Wanda Dworecki, 18, was strangled and beaten to death near a Camden, N. J., cemetery. Police noted that her seamy, brooding father, the Rev. Walter ("Iron Mike") Dworecki (of the First Polish Baptist Church) had insured her for $2,695, that he had once been charged with lucrative arson by a fire insurance company. Last week a onetime boarder in the Dworecki home, 21-year-old Peter Schewchuk, confessed that at Pastor Dworecki's behest he killed Wanda while her parent was out preaching, got 50? for the job from Father Dworecki. Along with Peter Schewchuk, he pleaded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Crime | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...theft . . . WANTED for murder . . . for kidnapping . . . for arson ADOLF HITLER

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Honored Editor | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...Suspect Arson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Arson Hint in Lampoon Blaze Throws Suspicion On Publication Executives; Profit Motive Is Seen | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

Insurance agents who examined the location of the fire hinted arson, but contemplated no action because of the little damage done. Police were inclined to think that the fire had resulted from spontaneous combustion originating from the organization's library of ancient jokebooks, which are removed from the cellar only eight times a year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Arson Hint in Lampoon Blaze Throws Suspicion On Publication Executives; Profit Motive Is Seen | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

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