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Convicts left behind spotted the handiwork of Clyde Barrow, notorious outlaw-at-large, said he fired the machine gun, suspected the horn was honked by his woman, gun-toting, cigar-smoking Bonnie Parker. Next day posses bagged only one flown jailbird. Convict J. B. French, panting a few minutes ahead of prison bloodhounds, ran for refuge into the cabin of a Negro farmer. The Negro covered him with a shotgun, held him until bloodhounds bayed at the door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Special Delivery | 1/29/1934 | See Source »

...States and Russia with the League of Nations, I believe that Russian recognition will have no effect. All nations are gradually drifting away from their affiliation with that body, because they are beginning to find out that the League is not what it is represented to be. It cannot outlaw war and it is becoming generally accepted that the League is merely a political organization established to preserve the status quo of the Treaty of Versailles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: More Communists Caused by Bankers Than by Agents of Reds--- Shipstead | 1/16/1934 | See Source »

...words made a sound to the eyes, most people's do not") he introduced Ernest Hemingway to her. Back in the U. S., he wrote for the New Yorker, until last year was its book reviewer. Meantime he had married Sculptress Elsa Kirpal, written a best-seller (The Outlaw Years), and begun to build with his own hands his own house near Brewster. N. Y. Tall, redhaired, slow moving, he likes to read dictionaries and trade journals, spends whole afternoons throwing an ice-pick at a target on a barn door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: FICTION | 12/18/1933 | See Source »

Would the United States join in such a boycott? The American Federation of Labor has already proclaimed a boycott against Hitlerism and while the provisions of the Kellogg Pact do not specify what measures shall be taken against an outlaw nation it cannot be forgotten that Ambassador Davis, speaking for the President of the United States at the outset of the Geneva Conference, indicated clearly that America would not side with the aggressor in any conflict...

Author: By David Lawrence, | Title: Today in Washington | 10/19/1933 | See Source »

...that any pilot taking part in an unsanctioned meet would be barred from sanctioned meets for from one to three years, depending on the amount of prize money involved. A few rebels defied the N. A. A. order, taxied to the starting line at the Chicago Tribune's outlaw meet last week. But most of the famed speed pilots turned to Los Angeles if only for two reasons: the National meet had $50,000 prize money, compared to Chicago's $20,000; and it left them qualified to compete for more prize money at Chicago in September...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: The Races | 7/10/1933 | See Source »

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