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This in Japanese eyes put upon the murder an aspect which caused numerous Japanese, including two schoolgirls, to prick themselves last week and write with their blood passionate pleas for mercy which Presiding Judge Major General Seisaburo Sato had read out in court. "Boo-hoo!" sobbed the Samurai's Son bursting into tears at the tender sentiments of pity penned in "maiden's blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Blood & Tears | 2/10/1936 | See Source »

...after a factory breakdown, "shot for sabotage." Commissar Terenty Deribas of the Ogpu Far East Section, perhaps its most romantic branch. In Mongolia and other nomadic border lands the natives are under an impression, perhaps mistaken, that a local chieftain whom the Ogpu considers superfluous often dies from the prick of a poisoned nail in his saddle. Commissar Stanislas Redens of the Ogpu Moscow Section. Commissar Leonid Zakovsky of the Ogpu Leningrad Section. Vsevolod Balitsky of the Ogpu Ukranian Section. Decidedly able, Commissar-General Yagoda is credited with having devised perhaps the Ogpu's brightest idea from the viewpoint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Ogpu Cabinet | 12/9/1935 | See Source »

...Until a year ago, I would have been willing to endorse their statement," exclaimed Professor Gottwald Schwarz, University of Vienna's longtime radiologist. ". . . But accidentally I lately suffered a needle prick of the nail cuticle of my left index finger. This trifling injury gradually developed into an ulcer which today, after the lapse of one year, still does not show the least tendency toward healing." Day & night Professor Schwarz asks himself: "Have I a cancer? Should I have the finger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Specialists' Skin | 1/21/1935 | See Source »

...bound to accomplish this even at the expense of forcing the permanent discontinuation of the huge bonuses paid to industrialists. Any man who can take a million-dollar bonus while others are crying for jobs and for bread must be forced into decent generosity if his conscience does not prick him into...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OPPORTUNITY | 5/3/1934 | See Source »

...every first-hand reader of Ulysses there have been scores of second-hand gossipers. Censorship rather than sound criticism has spread its reputation throughout the Western world. What the man in the street has heard of Ulysses has made him prick up his ears. Usually his first question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ulysses Lands | 1/29/1934 | See Source »

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