Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shown as childishly innocent, this bow to censorship does not seriously impair the picture's conception of its hero as a vain, generous, clever, sentimental bon vivant, capable of committing suicide by eating too many oysters. It is a warm and genial period piece which reaches its maximum distinction in that scene in which Edward Arnold, making the most of one of the fattest parts that it has ever been the good fortune of a Hollywood character actor to achieve, shows Brady effectively consoling himself for the collapse of his romance with Jane by setting to work alone...
Convicted. Noel Charles Scaffa, 46, best-known U. S. private detective (specialty : jewel retrieving); of perjury in testifying before a Federal Grand Jury concerning his part in returning $185,000 worth of jewels stolen in Miami Beach from Mrs. Margaret Hawkesworth Bell (TIME, June 10); in Manhattan. Maximum possible sentence: 15 years in prison, $6,000 fine...
...Shanghai when New Life prepared its gossip about Emperors and had not authorized the piece. Associate Editor Yih Sui, presumably responsible, was shown to have escaped to a place unknown. Thereupon, as a trim Japanese officer watched grimly in the courtroom, Editor Tu received the maximum sentence of 14 months in jail at hard labor...
...possible contributing causes of quakes, such as the tidal pulls on Earth of heavenly bodies. Herbert Janvrin Browne, a heterodox Washington long-range weather forecaster, thinks the high frequency of quakes this year may be related to the fact that 1935 will have seven lunar and solar eclipses, the maximum possible number...
...weeks of hearings in which 59 witnesses filled 907 pages of testimony, the report blamed the crash principally on bad weather and inaccurate weather reporting by government and company meteorologists, found TWA guilty of five "inexcusable violations" of Federal airline regulations for which it may be fined a maximum of $2,500-the first such fine in U. S. airline history...