Word: ret
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grabbing big sums for doing practically nothing.* At first I tried to reform them. I still burned with ideals. When Marjory and I were arrested we realized that by telling everything we would be ridding Moscow of men who were nothing but bloodsuckers." Aided by the French Sûreté, peaching Mr. & Mrs. Switz this week "disappeared," the Sûreté advising them that unless they lie extremely low some of Moscow's disillusioned spies will murderously shut them...
...Paris the trial of assorted spies for Germany and Russia who were betrayed to the Sûreté Nationale by their friends, Mr. & Mrs. Robert Gordon Switz of East Orange, N. J. (TIME, March 26, 1934, et seq.), buzzed on last week. Two star female prisoners continued to rely for acquittal on daily exhibitions in court of babies born to them in jail...
...years ago as an art student in Pans Grant Wood affected a flaming pair of pink whiskers and a béret basque. As the Rembrandt of Iowa and Director of the Stone City art colony, Artist Wood now works in blue denim overalls...
...size thundering in circles all day over Belgrade made sad-eyed French President Albert Lebrun feel safer. M. le Président also had with him War Minister Marshal Pétain, a company of steel-helmeted French infantry, 200 bluejackets and 50 picked detectives of the Sûreté Nationale...
Before he could be caught "Master Mind" Pavelitch had slipped over into Italy. The Italian police detained him at Turin, refused to let him be quizzed by agents of the French Sûreté Nationale who loudly protested to High Heaven and Benito Mussolini. Obviously Il Duce cannot take the chance of a French frame-up to plant responsibility for the crime in Italy or her protege Hungary.. Last week there was distinct danger that on this issue Jugoslavia might prefer charges before the League. A bit too precipitously Premier General Julius...