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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bronzed from a winter of hunting on a 10,000-acre preserve near Bad Saarow. his German home. Heavyweight Champion Max Siegfried Adolf Otto Schmeling arrived last week in the U. S. With him were a shepherd dog brought for a Iriend and Trainer Max Machon, wearing a new suit. On June 16, Champion Schmeling will defend his title, in a new 81,250,000 stadium (begun last week) in Long Island City, against Jack Sharkey of Boston, whom he beat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 18, 1932 | 4/18/1932 | See Source »

Last week one Alfred Arthur Machon, Guernsey householder, stepped outside his villa, was vexed to see that a plasterer working on a villa next door had put up a scaffolding that overhung his rose garden, and while plastering the wall of the house, was dropping plaster on his rose bushes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Ha, Rollol | 3/3/1930 | See Source »

...Look here, my man," said Alfred Arthur Machon, "You're sloshing plaster all over my roses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Ha, Rollol | 3/3/1930 | See Source »

Neighbors gathered. The plasterer, whistling cheerfully at his work, continued to slosh plaster. At 12:15 p. m. House holder Machon stepped forward, dropped on both knees. "Haro! Haro! Haro!" he cried slowly and distinctly, "a I'aide mon prince, on me fait tort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Ha, Rollol | 3/3/1930 | See Source »

...Guernsey law, the Clameur de Haro constitutes a legal injunction. The alleged "tort" or wrong must cease until the case has been tried in the island's Royal Court. In the Royal Court last week appeared Householder Alfred Arthur Machon and witnesses who deposed that the plasterer had not only paid no attention to the Clameur de Haro, raised at 12:15 p. m., but had continued his slovenly plastering until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Ha, Rollol | 3/3/1930 | See Source »

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