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Fortnight ago the pedestrian with the sensitive nose passed a rooming house on East 45th Street at the moment when Truckman Edward Wetzenberger was hoisting a large trunk from the sidewalk. The garageman smelled ether. He quickly telephoned the police station, "A man's carrying a trunk with a body in it out of a house here!" Detectives Elmer Mason and Rudolph McLaughlin climbed into their speedy little black Ford, rushed to the address in time to follow Mr. Wetzenberger's truck to a warehouse on East 41st Street. A Cuban broker by the name of Jorge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Conspirators | 8/17/1931 | See Source »

...contained no cadaver. Inside were a dozen cans of ether and the following articles: two revolvers, 40 rounds of ammunition, twelve pairs of riding boots, a box of nickel-plated spurs, twelve officers' uniforms complete with hats, a gross of clinical thermometers, box after box of silver-plated insignia for officers' shoulder straps. A letter in the pockets of de Zaldo led to the arrest of Emilio N. Robaina, correspondent of Excelsior El Pais (Excelsior The Homeland), a gentleman with beetling brows and heavy black mustache. Department of Justice agents telephoned Washington, telephoned Havana where Senors de Zaldo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Conspirators | 8/17/1931 | See Source »

...world groups, the Soviets, and in somewhat lesser degree the Fascisti, which [attempt] to push the world back ... to the time when the Pharaoh under the strategy of his Prime Minister, Joseph, became an absolute despot. . . . Any talk of loss of liberty through the monopolistic control of the ether ... is too grotesque to need to be given more than a line in an address like this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Bringing Up Radio | 6/1/1931 | See Source »

...doubt that thousands of Catholics knelt as the Pope's voice came over the ether, especially when he extended his blessing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Also In This Issue, Mar. 30, 1931 | 3/30/1931 | See Source »

...invented the interferometre by which in the Michelson-Morley experiment of 1887 he split a ray of light in two and raced the fractions against each other. This single experiment disproved the theory of a drifting ether, broke down old scientific philosophy, triggered off Einstein's study of relativity, created a new conception of time, space, motion of reality itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Timing Light | 3/2/1931 | See Source »

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