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Word: murderings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...addition there was 430,000 schillings paid to buy houses for Jewish refugees from Germany, and a payment of 108,000 schillings to Anton Rintelen, now serving a life sentence for participation in the Nazi Putsch which led to the murder of Engelbert Dollfuss. Maintaining the goodwill of the Austrian Press cost Phönix-Wien 1,098,000 schillings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Scandalous Phönix-Wien | 5/11/1936 | See Source »

Eleven days later New York's police methodically traced a piece of twine found near Mrs. Titterton's body to the shop where Fiorenza worked. A thrice-convicted thief, Fiorenza had been late for work Good Friday morning, could establish no alibi. When he was indicted for murder, all New York papers except one dropped the Titterton case off the front page...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Hearst Hoax | 5/11/1936 | See Source »

...distinction for a quality unique in actresses under 45 - she would play anything. She was the only good-looking girl whom Paramount found willing to stick her face through a doorway in I'm No Angel and let Mae West squirt water into it. Her performance in 'Murder at the Vanities was so nastily expert that Paramount decided she was ripe for better parts. She lives with her mother in a house at Toluca Lake in Los Angeles, works too hard to go out much, saves her money, regarded driving an automobile as fun until she was hurt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 11, 1936 | 5/11/1936 | See Source »

...prospector by posing for pictures. Dentist Gattuccio refused to pay, took the pi:ture, later returned to take another. As Jasper Gattuccio clicked the shutter, Peter Voiss reached into his wagon for a shotgun, shot him dead. Prospector Voiss was bundled off to jail in San Francisco, indicted for murder. Psychiatrists examined him, ad judged him insane. To police Peter Voiss burst out: "To the crazy house I will not go. It's as if a boy passed you and threw a rock, then passed again and threw an other and another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Voiss | 5/11/1936 | See Source »

SAVAGE PATROL-J. G. Hides-McBride ($2.75). British Patrol Officer Hides recounts his experiences as defender of the peace in Papua, land of cannibals and headhunters. Some thoughtful observations for those who may wonder, with the author, what fun remains to the headhunter when he learns that murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recent Books: Fiction | 5/11/1936 | See Source »

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