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...quarter of a century Sir Horace Edmund Avory has been "The Hanging Judge" to terrified British criminals who also called him "Acid Drop." Scrawny-necked, thin-lipped, slit-eyed and fearsome on his high bench in Old Bailey, Sir Horace sent to the gallows a yearly grist of sordid British murderers and that misguided Irish patriot Sir Roger Casement. The Acid Drop also corroded Clarence Hatry, greatest of British swindlers, whose gigantic frauds unsettled confidence in The City and hastened Depression (TIME, Oct. 21, 1929). Last week Super-Swindler Hatry sat in a cell from which he may emerge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Tears for Acid Drop | 7/1/1935 | See Source »

...effect was primarily for home consumption and, whichever way dispersed on the resulting gale was calculated to enhance the Fuehrer's prestige at home. That it has enveloped him in a mantle of masterful heroism rather than a martyr's shroud for the German people, is simply so much grist to his mill. His position, which the events of the past year, such as the murderous party purge at Munich and elsewhere, indicated as extremely precarious, is again made secure--for the present. Meanwhile a conciliatory attitude by England should be a potent factor in dispelling the "ring of steel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 3/20/1935 | See Source »

...tell five conservative Democratic Senators?Glass and Byrd of Virginia, Tydings of Maryland, Gore of Oklahoma, Bailey of North Carolina?that they were accused of being in league with the League, an accusation which no one had made. Promptly all five issued ringing denials which were so much good grist for the Democratic Committee mill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: ALL | 9/3/1934 | See Source »

...this year U. S. Labor had struck itself out of 15,000,000 days-or 41,000 years-of work and probably $75.000.000 of pay. Among other strikes of last week which were making headlines for the Press, work for conciliators and mediators, trouble for police and grist for the Department of Labor's statistical mill were the following...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: 41,000 Years' Work | 7/30/1934 | See Source »

...this, however, is the enchanting grist of your rampant liberal. It affords a convenient escape from the more confusing and more important problem which Sunday's election poses for the diplomats. Mr. Hitler has received a national mandate from over forty million Germans to pursue his policy of equality for Deutschland and Versailles be damned. It is true that his position is difficult, that he is forced into a stand which may easily lead to a war, and to a fatal war from the angle that Germany cannot afford war and could not, in all probability, find outside support...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 11/14/1933 | See Source »

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