Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME unusually well-read and well-informed ought to answer a question that bothers my humble mind void of any legal enlightenment...
Sirs: Yesterday in Hearst's New York American I read how your offspring, "The March of Time'' is spreading subversive, communistic propaganda. About ten minutes later I was shown an article in Charles Angoff's left-wing American Spectator berating your fascistic qualities. This, to me anyway, is definite proof of your greatness. Congratulations...
Edward McCune and Cecil Rich, undergraduates at College of Emporia (Kans.), had read so much about the fun to be had in New Orleans at Mardi Gras that they stole two cars and held up a filling station to get there in time for last week's frolic. For robbing a second filling station on the outskirts of New Orleans and kidnapping its attendant, Funsters McCune & Rich were clapped into jail. Even so they could congratulate themselves on having taken part in a two-day pre-Lenten spree which, for sheer hell-raising, was unsurpassed since the fabulous days...
...purported to be from one Yun Chih-hsien, who claimed that he was leading a great rebellion against Prince Te. "My men are patriots," Yun trumpeted, "and absolutely opposed to Prince Te's pro-Japanese policy." This might have meant much or nothing, but one thing Premier Chiang read plainly between the lines of the telegram: There would be no Inner Mongol rebellion unless Nanking forked out some cash...
...Manhattan Ichthyologist Christopher W. Coates of the Aquarium received from the General Electric laboratories in Schenectady a potentiometer for measuring the voltage of electric eels. Mr. Coates inserted the electrodes in the water, agitated the eel, read the voltage. Eels developed from 170 to 300 volts...