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...Culprit. The accused man, who not only admitted committing the crime but even boasted of it, was a young Jewish Ukrainian, now a naturalized Frenchman, Sholem (Samuel) Schwartzbard, a watchmaker by profession. Short, ugly, he yet commanded the attention of the whole court, for he told his story, not as do many prisoners, shamefaced and haltingly, forced to reveal their crimes and motives by harassing lawyers?no, Watchmaker Schwartzbard openly confessed with gleaming eyes and hysterical mien, his body trembling with passion, how he slew "General" Simon Petlura to avenge the deaths of thousands of Jews slain in pogroms, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Petlura Trial | 11/7/1927 | See Source »

...Manhattan, a corpulent blackamoor was apprehended for picking pockets. In court, as soon as the culprit's name was mentioned, the judge recalled him as a citizen with a prior blot on his record, dating back to 1920. (The corpulent culprit's name was Juice Stain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Moose Pap | 9/5/1927 | See Source »

...walks into a restaurant and orders a vegetable dinner was pointed out accusingly by the National Shoe Retailers' Association in Manhattan last week, called the real culprit in high shoe price the association declared is coming. The less beef eaten, the less cattle killed, the higher the price of leather, the shoe men explained deftly. A 15% to 20% price increase was predicted because of the growth of vegetarianism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Shoes, Vegetables | 9/5/1927 | See Source »

...into a cell for converting to his own use £5,000 ($24,300) of the really enormous sums which his fervent oratory had helped to raise for War purposes. To be sure the judge who sentenced Mr. Bottomley stigmatized his "long series of heartless frauds"; but the culprit, who had conducted his own defense, rose to the occasion with a deep bow and the words: "My Lord, I only go where all accused men are sent in this land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Ticket-of-Leave-Man | 8/8/1927 | See Source »

Eulenburg the Proof. Is Biographer Ludwig a shrewd Clarence Darrow, speciously pleading that the culprit's inferiority complex drove him to War Lordhood? To prove beyond a doubt the tragic duality of the Kaiser's personality, Herr Ludwig presents as secondary only to the Emperor in interpretive importance, his bosom friend for 30 years, Count (later Prince) Philip zu Eulenburg-Hertfield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS ABROAD: Effeminate War Lord | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

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