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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chemical Warfare School in Maryland. He was taken to the Massie cottage in Manoa Valley where he was put into a tub of water, shot and allowed to bleed to death. His corpse was undressed and wrapped in bed sheets from which all laundry marks had been clipped. To support their theory the police announced that they had found Kahahawai's brown cap in the Massie home, a bloody towel in a closet, an unhinged door,.a bathroom freshly mopped, a bed stripped of sheets and a coil of new white rope such as was around the body. On Sailor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Murder in Paradise | 1/18/1932 | See Source »

Vexed by motorists who speed on the private roads in the ground of Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, England, Charles Richard John Spencer-Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, had sharp bumps built into the straightaways which no driver would be inclined to take at a fast clip more than once. The Manchester Guardian recalled a precedent of the plan, a bill introduced into the House of Lords by Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne Cecil, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, requiring the local authorities of every English village to dig a shallow trench across the road at the town limits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 2, 1931 | 11/2/1931 | See Source »

...Motor Co., Ltd. As I. H. C. were now out of the picture, Ford, Ltd. were willing to be nominated, although General Manager Smith expressed surprise, pleased surprise, that so large an order as one for 120,000 tractors should be placed by the Imperial Conference at a single clip. Dr. Owen dispelled this surprise, borrowing at the same time from Ford, Ltd. $170,000 for his Institute's "experiments." Thus Dr. Owen had enough money to make good his worthless check-although...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Great Swindles | 5/25/1931 | See Source »

...Waterloo, N. Y. Barbers James Baldassare and William Menzer raced to see how many heads of hair each could clip in the shortest length of time. Baldassare won by cutting 23 heads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Nerve | 5/4/1931 | See Source »

...Baldwin's first move would be an imitation of Benito Mussolini-to cut the wages of all Government employes 10% as an example to the country, in the hope that lower wages would lower prices, stimulate trade. (Already employes of the great Midland Bank have received a 10% clip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Saved Again | 2/9/1931 | See Source »

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