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...Philip Perkins, one-time (1928) British amateur golf champion. On the eve of his final match in the Dixie Amateur, he attended Miami's Embassy Club, a gambling casino. While some local policemen were enjoying a light supper in the kitchen, bandits entered the casino for a holdup. Golfer Perkins was shot in the left thigh. The bandit leader was killed, several other persons wounded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Father's Foundations | 3/7/1932 | See Source »

...Holdup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 9, 1931 | 11/9/1931 | See Source »

...exchange offices on the piers. "A pound is still a pound in England!" stormed one Briton in an Old Etonian tie just off the S. S. Homeric (Britain's "Ship of Splendor"). "I shall carry my pounds home with me! A bit high this, something of a holdup, what?" From London the international firm of Thomas Cook & Son circularized the British Isles with a doleful announcement that the fall of the pound had upped travel costs to Britons 20%, advised holidays at British resorts, cruises on British ships where a pound is still a pound. Norman Home, The pound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Pound, Dollar & Franc | 10/5/1931 | See Source »

...Shots stopped one, wounding two policemen and the driver. The fleeing taxi crossed the Harlem River into Manhattan and made its way to Riverside Drive, leaving two more wounded pedestrians in its wake. Up Riverside Drive it roared, pursued by police taxis. At Dyckman Street, twelve miles from the holdup scene, it was stopped by a truck. Policemen riddled it with bullets and flung open the doors. Out tumbled the taxi driver, dead, and inside were two dead bandits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Street Scene | 8/31/1931 | See Source »

Even so the Byng report and the Clydesdale holdup were enough for police chiefs to plan a revolutionary move, the arming of London's bobbies. Ever since their organizer, Sir Robert Peel, lent his nickname to the London Police, they have carried nothing more formidable than a short wooden truncheon. Last week the tradition of the incorruptible, unarmed British policeman (like the tradition of the invulnerable Bank of England) trembled in the balance. Twenty-five bobbies were up on charges of accepting bribes from publicans, bookmakers, and tradespeople...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: HOORAY! HOORAY! HOORAY!! | 8/31/1931 | See Source »

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