Word: franked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ministers without Portfolio: Dr. Hanns Frank, Dr. Hjalmar Schacht...
Pairings for the U. S. Singles tennis championships in Philadelphia were drawn in gloomy belief that Jacques Brugnon and Bernard Destremau of France, Charles Hare of England, Ferenc Puncec, Frank Kukuljevic and Demeter Mitic of Yugoslavia will be summoned home for war duty before the tournament ends next week...
Butcher. When thick-muscled, thick-headed Frank Dolezal confessed that he had beheaded one of 13 dissected human torsos found in Cleveland since 1934, Sheriff Martin L. O'Donnell thought he had "The Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run" (TIME, July 17). When ex-Butcher Dolezal told first one story and then another about how he disposed of his supposed victim's head, worried authorities reduced the charge against him from murder to manslaughter, wondered whether they had a simple lunatic instead of a killer. Last fortnight Frank Dolezal hanged himself in his cell with a towel. Last week...
...obsessed absorption with insoluble problems, pushed the whole conflict out of their minds. Or they made no distinction between the antagonists, thought of them struggling for the same ends by different- and generally deceptive-means. Or they went South American or Russian (see p. 35), viewed with frank satisfaction making money from the war. Or they decided that the whole turmoil baffled understanding, that its reports held no truth, the speeches of all its spokesmen held some hidden meaning that by the chemistry of distance was lost as it crossed the Atlantic...
...trade, fool laws. Clinching his points with many a keenly human story, he reviews such legal circuses as the trial of Bruno Hauptmann (Author Train thinks Hauptmann got what he should have got but not the way he should have got it), a legal lynching like that of Leb Frank, who, though probably innocent, was convicted of rape by a Georgia jury in 1914, later physically lynched...