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...judgment of competent scholars. Last week chastened Chairman Nye asked the Senate for $7,369 to let his committee hear out Banker J. P. Morgan & friends, pay off its employes, print its record. Not a single Senator opposed this graceful fadeout. Senator Connally temperately limited himself to declaiming: "The burglar who breaks into a house at night doesn't believe in private rights or security. The jackal or the hyena that invades a cemetery to fatten its own body by digging up the dead does not believe in the sanctity of the tomb. . . . Let [the Nye committee] come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Fadeout | 2/10/1936 | See Source »

Police swarmed to Dunster House Friday morning when it was reported that either a student or a burglar was crawling about the roof of the building...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DUNSTER HOUSE HAS BURGLAR SCARE AS MAN CLIMBS ROOF | 1/13/1936 | See Source »

...Federal Reserve Branch Bank of Memphis, Tennessee's bumbling old Senator Kenneth Douglas McKellar thought he would see how good the police were. He stepped on a burglar alarm. Police arrived in two minutes, took Senator McKellar to the lockup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 6, 1936 | 1/6/1936 | See Source »

...burglar, and leave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Helen Millennial | 12/30/1935 | See Source »

...Precious Burglar," Bab was a piquant girl in a knee-length skirt and a hat like an inverted pot. She got into all kinds of scrapes, including a burglary. To collegiate hearts in 1920 she came very close to being the Dream Woman. When the play opened in Boston. Edgar Scott, socialite senior from Philadelphia, translated this widespread emotion about Miss Hayes into the following verse for the Harvard Lampoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Helen Millennial | 12/30/1935 | See Source »

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