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...last week, Vera Stretz was on trial for her life, and the New York Press had made her case the juiciest sex & shooting sensation of the season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Trial by Reporters | 4/6/1936 | See Source »

...politics as in fruit, California boasts the juiciest, the most exotic. Having savored Upton Sinclair's EPIC in 1934, she celebrated 1935 by holding the longest, bitterest, most be-lobbied session of her Legislature in history, a free-for-all that ended last week on the front doorstep of Governor Frank Merriam. Today 22 States have chain store taxes. Into the heated session of the California Legislature, Progressives introduced a chain store tax on a California scale- $1 for one store, $2 for the second, $4 for the third and so on in geometric progression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Chains | 7/29/1935 | See Source »

...smashing Communist and Socialist demonstrations ruthlessly. Socialists asked and got the head of Prefect Chiappe as the price of their support of the luckless Daladier government. Prefect Chiappe was forced to resign. To keep him quiet Premier Daladier reached deep into his plum bag for one of the juiciest of all French administrative posts-the Governorship of Morocco. Still gambling on his popularity in Paris, Jean Chiappe turned the offer down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Dueling Mayor | 7/8/1935 | See Source »

...their border patrols that the Kurdish tribesmen could be nabbed at-their raiding and the scourge of banditry wiped out. Last week Turkish and Persian statesmen hailed this achievement in toast after brimming toast. They then talked behind their ever-itching palms about British oil, by all odds the juiciest thing in Persia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Brothers in Islam | 7/2/1934 | See Source »

When William Marcy Tweed bossed Tammany Hall and New York City, political livelihoods were made by out-&-out peculation. Boss Charles Francis Murphy brought the city contract racket to its juiciest fruition. But fashions in municipal graft change. Nowadays Tammany feeds largely on the real estate and building businesses. How it is done was clearly illustrated last week by Inquisitor Samuel Seabury to the eight-month-old Republican-controlled Legislative investigation of New York City's administration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Al Smith's Friend's Firm | 11/30/1931 | See Source »

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