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...insane asylum, was charged in 1931 with embezzlement and fraud but escaped trial. Attorney General Wilentz got a copy of the confession, learned that Wendel was being held under guard in a State colony for mental defectives at New Lisbon, N. J., had him ordered turned over to Mercer County (Trenton) authorities. By some mistake Wendel was committed to Mercer County jail, not on the 1931 charges, as planned, but on a charge of having murdered Charles Lindbergh Jr., the crime for which Hauptmann was to be executed three days later. In jail Wendel flatly repudiated his confession, said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: The Hoffman Case | 4/13/1936 | See Source »

...before Hauptmann's scheduled execution he fought vainly, in a long, closed session, to persuade the Court of Pardons to commute the prisoner's sentence. Next day, declaring the Wendel confession "incredible," Justice Thomas W. Trenchard refused to stay the execution pending its investigation. Meantime the Mercer County Grand Jury headed by one Allyne Freeman, longtime Republican office-seeker and supposed good friend of Governor Hoffman, was weighing the charge of murder against Wendel. At 8 p. m., 20 minutes before Hauptmann was to be led to the electric chair, Foreman Freeman asked the prison warden by telephone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: The Hoffman Case | 4/13/1936 | See Source »

Another of last year's lettermen. George Ford reported for work, bolstering the backfield. Ford started at left half in the Princeton game last season. S. Mercer Moorman Jr. '39, a center, also was issued equipment, bringing the total...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARLOW'S MEN WORK TO BETTER THEIR PASSING | 4/8/1936 | See Source »

Thirteen years ago a pert, pretty 14-year-old California girl named Marjorie Gladman watched with interest her first tennis match. She thought it "an awfully nice game," coaxed her father for a racket. Four years later, under famed Coach Mercer Beasley, she wielded it with such proficiency that she won the National Girls' Championship. In 1928 she met John Van Ryn who, just out of Princeton, was winning recognition on the courts as a "giant-killer." By talking shop at tournament after tournament, they became fond of each other. In 1930 they were married...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Midge & Her Man | 3/23/1936 | See Source »

...price per ton of steel, irrespective of the size of the order. In practice, big buyers like the automobile companies have beaten down quotations as much as $8 per ton.* Last week in an attempt to waft away the dense cigar smoke that envelops this practice, Chairman-President Tom Mercer Girdler of Republic Steel Corp. made a bold move... Opening its books for second-quarter business, the No. 3 steel company of the 'land issued price lists with fixed discounts for quantity orders ranging from $1 per ton on lots of 25 to 50 tons to $3 on lots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Prices & Bases | 3/23/1936 | See Source »

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