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Then, for Cubans, came the most incredible part of the whole revolution. Constitutional guarantees were restored. With the President's permission and assistance, Culprits Pedraza, Garcia and other rebels with their families took a specially chartered Pan American Airways plane to Miami, where they were joined two days later by Culprit Gonzalez. Arriving in Florida, Gonzalez spoke like a defeated U. S. Presidential candidate. "1 bear President Batista only gratitude." he said, "and want to thank him for all the kindness he has shown me in the past and while I was getting ready to sail for the United...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Genteel Revolution | 2/17/1941 | See Source »

...mysterious Snooper Man, phantom Lowell House marauder, left his mark last night in the Bellboy library for the second time in a row, completely baffling a police force of tutors, yard police, and janitors which has been trying to unmask the culprit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LOWELL LIBRARY RAIDED AGAIN BY SNOOPER MAN | 1/10/1941 | See Source »

...minute search finally revealed the culprit in the form a corroded battery connection that had crumbled to dust under its rubber casing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY CUT FROM WORLD OVER AN HOUR YESTERDAY | 4/26/1940 | See Source »

Although the $75 watch was recovered by the police yesterday in a Roxbury pawn shop, the culprit, who was described by the proprietor as a "man of about 32 years," is as yet undiscovered...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POLICE FIND STOLEN WATCH IN PAWN SHOP IN ROXBURY | 4/20/1940 | See Source »

...political satirist and pamphleteer, Schoolmaster Dove had original ideas about running a school. When a pupil played truant, Schoolmaster Dove sent a committee to his house. The committee went through the streets carrying lighted lanterns, loudly calling the boy's name - "a sad exposure for the juvenile culprit," said a chronicler. Said one of Dove's former pupils, Judge Richard Peters: "He was a sarcastic and ill-tempered doggerelizer, who was but ironically Dove. . . ." One of his fellow tutors was Charles Thomson, later secretary of the First Continental Congress. Lodging with Schoolmaster Dove and his wife, Tutor Thomson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Sarcastic Dove | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

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