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...clock one morning fortnight ago a man in a black Dodge sedan drove up to the Warner-Quinlan filling station on Manhattan's Lexington Avenue at 127th Street. Day Manager Walter Lyle filled his tank with five gallons of gasoline worth 98?. The man gave him a $10 gold certificate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: 4U-13-41 | 10/1/1934 | See Source »

...many of these anymore," said Lyle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: 4U-13-41 | 10/1/1934 | See Source »

Following his company's instructions to be on the lookout for counterfeit gold bills or bills of large denominations, Manager Lyle wrote on the margin of the note he had just received the license number of the Dodge sedan: 4U-13-41. Next day he gave the bill to an employe named John Lyons, told him to take it to a nearby branch of the Corn Exchange Bank, see if it was genuine. Lyons was told it was. Three days later the bank turned the bill over to the New York office of the Department of Justice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: 4U-13-41 | 10/1/1934 | See Source »

...NIGHT OF LOVE--This one misses A rating simply because of a silly title. Probably the first motion picture to bring opera to the screen without losing its effectiveness and still retain the average movie-goer's interest. Grace Moore in splendid voice. (Tullio Carminati Lyle Talbot...

Author: By Prof. METRO Ebb hack, | Title: Report Card | 9/28/1934 | See Source »

...Hartley Board of Regents which ousted Suzzalo draped the presidential mantle around Matthew Lyle Spencer, director of Washington's School of Journalism, but put the presidential sceptre in the hands of a Hartley henchman named William Neal Winter, a practicing spiritualist with a "control" named Hugo. Asked Washingtonians: "Who really runs the University-Hartley or Hugo?" In 1932 Hartley (or Hugo), ostensibly for economy, smashed the Suzzalo system of Colleges, bore down on extracurricular activities, optional courses. That autumn Washington Alumnus Clarence Daniel Martin (Class of 1906) rode the Democratic landslide into the Governorship. President Spencer soon "asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Hugo, Gobsie & Beartrap | 6/11/1934 | See Source »

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