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...Charles Cabot, New Haven, Conn, garageman: the Albany-to-New York outboard motorboat race (132¼ mi.) in 2 hr. 56 min. 39 sec., a record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, May 23, 1932 | 5/23/1932 | See Source »

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 »

Senator Tasker Lowndes Oddie of Nevada, driving to work at the Capitol, found that his automobile was not functioning properly. He telephoned a garage, ordered repairs, arranged that the garageman was to leave another automobile for his use. When he was through for the day, Senator Oddie went to the Capitol Plaza, picked out a shiny new Packard sedan, drove home in it. Next morning at breakfast he read in the newspaper that the automobile of his Democratic adversary, Senator Harry Bartow Hawes of Missouri, was being searched for by the police. That, thought Senator Oddie, was too bad. When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 17, 1930 | 3/17/1930 | See Source »

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