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For a 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...

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

¶More than a coincidence is the fact that International Harvester's active head has always been a Scotsman. Its managerial traditions are tight-lipped accounting and long-headed efficiency. Its annual report usually concludes with a tribute to the "zeal," "courage," "loyalty" or "resourcefulness" of its organization. After...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Personnel: May 6, 1935 | 5/6/1935 | See Source »

Last year U. S. District Judge Charles Irvin Dawson of Louisville upheld the Frazier-Lemke Farm Mortgage Act "with extreme reluctance." Then this thin-lipped Southern Republican began to bear down on the New Deal in earnest. In quick succession he declared illegal the condemnation of private property for PWA...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Tottering Table | 4/22/1935 | See Source »

As every English crime fancier recalls, the legs, though obviously male, had been femininely peroxided and powdered. Suspicion has been strong that the murdered man had been living with some other man who eventually slew him when threatened with blackmail. Last week Pathologist Spilsbury did much to dash this theory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Spilsbury Freckles | 4/22/1935 | See Source »

Son Manfred von Richthofen was downed after bagging 80 Allied planes. His downy-lipped "baby brother" Bolko, the present Baron von Richthofen, now gallantly squires the Dowager Baroness. A doctor of philosophy, he is an honorary member of the new Richthofen Escadrille, does not fly.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Obscuration Maneuvers | 4/1/1935 | See Source »

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