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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the Führer was released from jail, young, jobless Himmler joined up with the slowly forming Storm Troops. Soon Storm Troop Leader Ernst Roehm (a notorious homosexual) and the Führer quarreled. Roehm quit the country, became military adviser to Bolivia. The Führer saw the weakness of the loosely organized, unwieldy mob of Brown Shirts and decided to form, within the Storm Troopers, a carefully chosen elite group of men to be known as the Schutzstaffel ("Protective Corps"), better known as the 55 Guards. Their primary function at first was to guard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Secret Policeman | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...Steuer, did not appear in court. Johnny Torrio and two of his four co-defendants pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the Government of $86,000 in taxes between 1933 and 1935. The Last of the Big Shots, who once spent seven months in a Waukegan, Ill. jail for running a brewery, looked forward to a much longer sentence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Waukegan Brewer | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...Chicago edition of Thomas Edmund Dewey is Dwight Green, 42, stocky, grey, energetic. He helped jail Al Capone and tried Old Sam Insull. Last week, Dwight Green got more votes for Mayor (638,068) than any Republican candidate in history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ILLINOIS: Green's 43% | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...dressed in chaste white robes. Chief Shembe gave his followers a good character. "We never have fights," he said, "not even quarrels." But the 458 female Nazareth Baptists were found guilty of manslaughter. Punishment was spread thin over the entire group. Sentence: for eleven leaders, six months in jail; for the others, three months with sentence suspended after a promise to behave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: 458 Delilahs | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...raced at 70 m.p.h. It slowed to turn left on Eleventh Avenue, sailed past the historic Dewey Palace Hotel before State traffic officers caught it, arrested Vardis Fisher, 44, impassioned Idaho novelist. Writing an impassioned account for the Idaho Statesman, Author Fisher said he was taken to jail, told to put his heels together, hold his head back, and close his eyes, to determine if he was drunk, was then locked in a verminous cell while officers examined "love letters from a dozen women" found in his pocket, and his Colt revolver. Officers said there was nothing to it-that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Literary Life | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

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