Word: bernards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Home Office had not decided that here was a case for Sir Bernard Spilsbury interest might not have mounted to such feverish heights. Sir Bernard Spilsbury is Britain's living successor to mythical Sherlock Holmes. He specializes in macabre cases in which there seem to be no clues. Who but Sir Bernard could have brought to justice Norman Thorne who hanged his sweetheart and then buried her deep beneath the plowed topsoil of his farm? The latest achievement of Sir Bernard Spilsbury, British readers were reminded by the million last week, was his feat in persuading a jury...
...good omen was the finding in London, just before Sir Bernard left, of a pair of legs in a suitcase left at King's Cross Station which proved to be the legs of the Brighton torso. As he went to work Sir Bernard Spilsbury preserved the Sherlock Holmes tradition of keeping mum, but he had his Dr. Watson in Chief Detective Pelling. The sole clue seemed to be that both legs and torso were wrapped in the same sort of brown wrapping paper and on the paper around the torso appeared the letters...
Next August, Bernard Mannes Baruch will be 64. About that time, when he returns from Vichy, France, he will go to work in a new office in midtown Manhattan, four miles north of the office at No. 120 Broadway which he has occupied for the last six years. That move will mark a major milestone in the Baruch career. Last week Mr. Baruch explained the reason to an Associated Pressman: he is going to give up finance for literature, to write three books, The Autobiography of an American Boy, The Way That Lies Ahead for the Youth of America...
...side of the Grand Canal and cheered them selves hoarse, the landing of Adolf Hitler at the Grand Hotel was no triumph. He was shown up to the honeymoon suite of Barbara Hutton and Alexis Mdivani, sacred also to the memory of William Randolph Hearst. Mr. and Mrs. George Bernard Shaw and Spain's Alfonso XIII. Meanwhile Mussolini had dashed off toward the great Fascist-built motor via duct more than two miles long connecting Venice with the mainland. As he stepped ashore a small Balilla (Fascist Scout) squirmed between policemen's legs and ran up to // Duce...
...brokers, produce brokers, hope to capitalize on the fact that, so far, they have escaped the rigid Federal regulation of their fellow stock brokers. Minor commodities, as yet unexploited, were being investigated. Quicksilver, now selling at $75 per flask of. 76 Ib., was suggested as a good inflation hedge. Bernard E. ("Sell 'Em Ben") Smith, brash and jovial stockmarket operator, lately returned from a trip around the world full of good words for shellac and pepper. Though he personally inspected the habits of the Far Eastern lac beetle, he had apparently been influenced by a group of London speculators...