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...women. As they chained the squat, tattooed booty, the clubhouse of Papuan men spewed out a phalanx of rescuers. Schmidt raised his rifle, shot and killed three. On trial at Rabaul on the neighboring island of New Britain, Schmidt's sole defense was that he had planned to frighten the blacks and what was so bad about killing a few Papuans anyway? Old Ludwig was sentenced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW GUINEA: Old Ludwig | 4/6/1936 | See Source »

What is this dagger Justice Stone sees before him? There is certainly no resentment against the Supreme Court in the country today. Can the screechings of one or two stormy petrels in the halls of Congress frighten the secure justices of the highest court of the land? Considering the attitude of the country last May when the court voided the N.R.A. there is no possibility that public opinion will now suddenly and vindictively rise up against it. Nor has the prestige of the tribunal diminished in any degree since that time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HAUNTED HOUSE | 1/8/1936 | See Source »

...twelve years as the result of rheumatic fever contracted at the age of 12, was thrown into acute agitation on reading the article. ... To read a quotation, heavily emphasized, from the lips of a leading authority on the subject that one has about three years to live would seriously frighten anyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 24, 1935 | 6/24/1935 | See Source »

...course London will be bombed in the next war, and I'll tell you why. . . . In the event of war the Germans will bomb London in order to frighten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: London in War | 4/22/1935 | See Source »

...They will be wrong. You cannot frighten English people that way; you will only infuriate them ... I do not disguise the fact that living in London during the next war will be uncomfortable and moderately dangerous, but London is not going to be wiped out nor is the civil population going to be exterminated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: London in War | 4/22/1935 | See Source »

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