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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, under a blazing sun on the range of the U. S. Park Police at Abingdon, Va., Chief Gunner Charles Hubbard, U. S. C. G., bellowed "ready to the right, ready to the left, ready behind the line, FIRE!" As a line of targets swung into position, a line of Treasury pistols cracked, and better than nine out of ten of their shots pierced the 3¼-in. bull's-eyes. Best individual shot among the Treasury's men was an affable, red-faced Scotsman, Lee E. Echols, inspector at the New York Customs Bureau. Last week...
...Behind Racketeer Flegenheimer, who was murdered in a Newark saloon, Mr. Dewey soon nosed out a notorious underworld lawyer, Julius Richard ("Dixie") Davis. When relentless Tom Dewey announced that lurking behind Davis was the substantial figure of potent Tammany District Leader Jimmy Hines, whom he indicted as the policy racket's real boss (TIME, June 6), he made a real stir in city politics...
Japanese have nominally occupied all Hopeh for eight months, its eastern quarter for nearly three years. General Lu's description of conditions behind the Japanese lines, allowing for natural partisan distortion, was the more significant because the Japanese are now apparently reducing their forces in that area in order to send reinforcements to the threatened Manchukuoan border (see col. 1). He said: "Our central Hopeh forces now control 8,000 square miles of territory-about the size of Massachusetts-sandwiched between the railways south of Peiping and Tientsin...
Manhattanites were walking more slowly than usual along Fifth Avenue. A man stopped short, peered upward at the elaborate limestone facade of the Gotham Hotel. At once a crowd closed in behind him, followed his horrified gaze. On a narrow window ledge, 17 floors above the street, stood a young man, precariously teetering. He was 26-year-old John William Warde of Southampton, L. I., who had recently been discharged from an insane asylum and with his sister was visiting friends in Manhattan. At a slight reproof from his sister, Warde had rushed to the window, climbed...
...Clipper was a 26-ton Martin 130, built for Pan American's transpacific route in 1935. Trim and seaworthy, she could ride out rough weather as easily as a small yacht. She had four watertight bulkheads. She carried rubber inflatable boats, a stock of small balloons to drop behind her in hare-hounds fashion to show her course, kites for an emergency radio aerial, a shotgun and fishing tackle in case she piled up on a coral reef, enough food for 15 people for a month. But not all the gadgets in the world could save...