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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since the Soviet Union seems to be the chief culprit,and since Paris is now flirting with an alliance with Moscow, the prosecution proceeded half-heartedly and Judge Revol seemed content to let his spy trial become a baby show, with beaming French policemen stumbling about with bottles, diapers, rattles and wraps, chortling: "Ah, le petit! Now he sucks his thumb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Milk Teeth & Spies | 4/22/1935 | See Source »

Committee & Culprit. After the Chicago riots a commission was appointed to see what could be done about improving the Negroes' lot. Following suit, Mayor LaGuardia last week appointed a similar committee composed of prominent Negroes like Poet Countee Cullen and President A. Philip Randolph of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, such professional white committeemen as Trustee William Jay Schieffelin of Tuskegee Institute, Lawyers Morris Ernst and Arthur Garfield Hays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAGES: Mischief Out of Misery | 4/1/1935 | See Source »

...week ended, Culprit Lino Rivera bobbed up in a Brooklyn court on a charge of trying to use a tinfoil slug in place of a nickel in a subway turnstile. Promising once more to be good, he was paroled to a city probation officer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAGES: Mischief Out of Misery | 4/1/1935 | See Source »

...delightful pastoral, a "Shadow of Doubt" crosses the screen. This is a murder mystery which carries Ricardo Cortez and Virginia Bruce through many a night club, until at last the web is unfangled by an astonishingly brusque and perspicacious maiden aunt. If you should have difficulty in selecting the culprit, look for the Yale man, two years...

Author: By W. L. W., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 3/18/1935 | See Source »

...sausages in Tom-Tom's house to make it appear that Tom-Tom is guilty of the crime. Tom-Tom is sentenced to exile in Bogey-land but before its inhabitants?miniature King-Kongs with pitchfork teeth?have time to destroy him, the villagers of Toyland discover the real culprit. This leads first to a heroic rescue of Tom-Tom by Ollie and Stannie and finally to a war in which the bogeys are decimated by a regiment of wooden soldiers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 10, 1934 | 12/10/1934 | See Source »

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