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...Norah Upchurch. Scotland Yard had only circumstantial evidence against Field, suspected when Norah Upchurch's body was first discovered, and the coroner's jury returned a verdict of murder against some person unknown. No progress had been made until Field dramatically confessed. Brought to trial he played hob with the conventions of murder mysteries by repudiating his confession, explaining that he had made it simply to force a trial and silence the suspicion from which he had suffered. He was promptly acquitted and the murder remained unsolved...
...their religion to use motorized farm machinery, Amish husbandmen raise corn and tobacco which are best adapted for the efforts of man and horse. Last year the Pennsylvania Amishmen joined in the reduction of crops by voluntarily curtailing their tobacco acreage. They puzzled many a Washington official, played hob with many an AAA balance sheet, by refusing to accept any Government benefit money. Since then, however, as result of a referendum held in Pennsylvania, Connecticut and Ohio, tobacco-growers who do not sign contracts are liable to a 33⅔% tax on the sale price of their crop. Other Mennonite...
...Wells; Arthur Dreifuss & Willard G. Gernhardt, producers). Marion (Edith Barrett) has been a sadist from her crib. In childhood she incurred the hatred of her entire family by pushing her sister Joan down a flight of stairs, leaving her a lifelong cripple. Grown up, slinky Marion continues to raise hob. She brings home an Italian sculptor who falls in love with Joan, does a splendid statue of her. Mean Marion smashes the statue. Not until Act III is she persuaded to shoot herself...
...Canada was ripe for change. Her prairie provinces, after years of low grain prices and inspired by the New Deal across the border, were ready for political revolt. The C.C.F. (Cooperative Commonwealth Federation, nicknamed "Cocofed"), a radical organization not unlike the U.S. Farmer-Labor Party, was preparing to raise hob. Canada's banks had stood unharmed through the Depression, but the West was bitter against them for not lending more money at lower rates. Bank scandals in the U.S. prompted Canadians to demand a similar airing of Canadian banking. Proposals were made for "nationalization of credit" to take...
Outside the U. S. the Depression has played hob with politics. In Britain a Coalition Government has been plodding along through crises of which last week's was one of the gravest, with great riots in London. France has swung from Right to Left while Germany amid civil blood & thunder was swinging in the other direction. A revolution turned Spain from a monarchy into a republic. China has gone from chaos to chaos. As an antidote for hard times Japan has taken a fling at militarism. South America has spawned too many revolutions to count. The King of Siam...