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...money and passport, he took Mary to Warsaw, where he became a power in the underworld. Mary caught the fancy of a commissar, but Mottke chafed under his stolen identity, longed to have his own name back. He fell in love with the innocent daughter of a brothel-keeper, sold his retinue of girls into white slavery in Argentina, became respectable. Before their marriage he told his conventionally-minded betrothed of his crime, because he wanted her to call him Mottke, was denounced to the commissar. With extravagant abandon, Mary diverted the commissar until she could warn Mottke, who would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Violent Vagabond | 10/28/1935 | See Source »

...become thoroughly accustomed to lurid intrigues and vile conspiracies. The smuggler's daughter was Sophie Dawes, brawny, coarse, mean-tempered Englishwoman from the Isle of Wight. The prince was Louis Henri Joseph, Duc de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, who had picked Sophie up in a London brothel. She was given great estates by her lover, was received by the king, moved in the highest French society despite her lack of tact, her shameless social climbing and her inability to speak the language. Beginning by amusing her super-aristocratic lover she soon dominated him, beat him occasionally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Worthless Wanton | 9/16/1935 | See Source »

...records showed that, with police connivance, bookmakers, slot-machine operators, brothel keepers were systematically tipped off in advance of raids upon their premises. Not only did the police maintain a profitable partnership with lawbreakers, but they were in cahoots with lawyers, who were duly advised when a likely case was in the making. Sample conversation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Symphony of Corruption | 7/8/1935 | See Source »

...whiskey. At the McPhillip wake, he astounds Mrs. McPhillip (Una O'Connor) by pouring four silver coins into her lap. He bashes a policeman on the jaw, harangues the crowd that gathers to applaud him, buys the company beer and chips. He creates a scene in a brothel and then completes his ruin at a Sinn Fein meeting-where he has been promised reinstatement if he tracks down the spy who betrayed McPhillip-by bringing a rash and silly accusation against a man who promptly proves his innocence. Forced to confess his own guilt, Gypo is sentenced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 20, 1935 | 5/20/1935 | See Source »

Conducting or owning a brothel is a crime, as defined by Section 1146 of the Penal Law and unless you have information substantiating your assertions you have committed a gross libel upon a whole people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 22, 1935 | 4/22/1935 | See Source »

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