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...good die young," is a favorite, sardonic saying of General Don Valeriano Weyler y Nicolau, Marquess of Tenerife, Grandee of Spain, long famed among U. S. citizens as "Butcher Weyler" because of his ruthless military governorship of Cuba, prime cause of the Spanish-American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Weyler Well | 4/14/1930 | See Source »

...Bradford, Pa., Mrs. Bernice Case asked her husband for a cigaret. When he refused, she stabbed him with a butcher knife, had him taken to a hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Feb. 24, 1930 | 2/24/1930 | See Source »

...Freshman squad of eight has five men who have played polo before. Those listed now include F. S. Nicholas '33, John Drum '33, St. John Smith '33, C. N. Bliss '33, B. E. Butcher '33, T. B. Eastland '33, Walter Wetten '33, and J. T. Nute...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WINTER POLO SEASON TO START IN NEAR FUTURE | 11/15/1929 | See Source »

...pictures to one of the tabloids for reproduction and enlargement-!" The facts, however, were not quite as stated by Variety. True, Charles Augustus Lindbergh had sent the snapshots to be developed. But he sent them, not to the Times but to his good and trusted friend Jesse S. Butcher, editor of the Times' feature news service. Honest Editor Butcher developed the negatives himself, did not offer to buy them, presented no bill. The cost was "about 20 cents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Honest Butcher | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

...retreat which Mrs. Hubert had financed, so he cherished Lillian in a Bronx apartment on $15,000 acquired by selling his pitiful business. A series of bibulous, wretched parties fast depleted the finances, as well as the joys of the liaison. Finally he was reduced to borrowing from the butcher and the wife who by that time closed her door on him. Lillian went back to work at the handkerchief counter, kept Hubert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Belmar's Delmar | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

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