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...rather there was no answer. Sentence: four years penal servitude. Next case? "Jake the Barber." About to break last week was a swindle story which U. S. Department of Justice operatives in Chicago and Philadelphia said will reveal a "monster ring of British swindlers" led by Chicago's dapper John ("Jake the Barber") Factor. According to the Secret Service, Mr. Factor, operating with British associates in London and at Le Touquet, has fleeced numerous prominent Britons, including Edward of Wales, out of no less than $7,000,000. To Department of Justice sleuths it seemed credible that...
...father of English cathedral music") and John Haynes Holmes, Manhattan preacher and civic reformer.† Once a Unitarian, Dr. Holmes became an independent in 1919. Friend of many a Jewish leader, he is especially close to Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise, with whom he lately agitated against Manhattan's dapper Mayor James John Walker (TIME, March 23 et seq.). Three of his works are included in the Reformed Hymnal. One stanza, in his hymn No. 76, is not recommended by the committee...
...always wins, courts boredom. Threatened last week with such boredom was Eugene Francis Savage, spry and dapper Leffingwell Professor of Painting at Yale University. Again he beamed upon the annual list of Prix de Rome awards. Again a pupil of his headed the roll of honor. And, as usual the winning painting, a mother and child, faithfully imitated the painting style of Leffingwell Professor Eugene Francis Savage...
Paris, the city that decapitated one pair of Bourbon monarchs 138 years ago, welcomed the King & Queen of Spain exuberantly last week. Dapper Prefect of Police Jean Chiappe had his bowler hat pushed over his eyes several times by ecstatic French and Spanish Royalists be- fore the Biarritz express pulled into the Gare d'Orléans. Queen Victoria Eugenie wept again at the unexpected welcome. Nine months ago the Prince of the Asturias, heir to the throne, arrived jauntily in Paris, apparently entirely cured of his haemophilia (easy bleeding) but the strain of the past fortnight was too much...
Smilingly, though he was ill and coughing, 98-lb. King Prajadhipok took leave of his Canadian guard, strapping "Mounties" in red coats and wide he-hats. As they climbed down from the train, U. S. secret service guards climbed up, followed by a dapper group of men whom Portal had been eying somewhat askance-State Department officials in dress suits and capes, led by Richard Southgate, acting chief of the Division of International Conferences & Protocol...