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...Kelly found the city a comfortable retreat. But the old reciprocity of the O'Connor regime lapsed. In little more than three years St. Paul has been the scene of three major kidnappings, and last year Attorney General Cummings singled it out as the "nation's poison spot of crime." Belatedly last week this hooligans' happy hunting ground was presented with a chance to clean house. The chance came in the form of 385 phonograph records...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Symphony of Corruption | 7/8/1935 | See Source »

...Bronx's New York Zoological Park appeared Rupert Merkl, 52, Bavarian-born, Ossining, N. Y. farmer, claiming he had invented a snake trap. Said Curator of Reptiles Dr. Raymond Lee Ditmars: "Impossible. I have never seen an effective snake trap and I know of no poison that will lure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 8, 1935 | 7/8/1935 | See Source »

...became incensed" at the position of the left hand of Titian's Venus? All I can see in the left hand of the picture of Titian's Venus is a bunch of leaves-I can't see anything to become incensed over unless the leaves are poison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 17, 1935 | 6/17/1935 | See Source »

Perhaps "other institutions should follow Harvard's example," and more than likely they would were the plan not impracticable in most cases. One man's food has always been another man's poison, and so it does not necessarily follow that what is good for Harvard is benefiting to other universities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 6/3/1935 | See Source »

...might call an emergency. ... I have been made almost physically sick to think that I and other statesmen of Europe should, 2,000 years after Christ was crucified, be spending our time thinking how we can take the mangled bodies of children to hospitals and how we can keep poison gas from going down the throats of people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: After Christ Crucified | 6/3/1935 | See Source »

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