Word: ret
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...CASE OF THE CRUMPLED KNAVE-Anthony Boucher-Simon & Schuster ($2). Young Fergus O'Breen, with the aid of Colonel Theodore Rand, U. S. A. (Ret.), nails the crafty killer of a wealthy California chemist-inventor...
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...night last week, while she was being loaded at her dock in Le Havre with art treasures for New York's World's Fair, $15,000,000 in gold for American depositories, fire struck France's third largest ship again. Because the Sûreté Nationale had been warned by an anonymous letter writer that saboteurs were out to sink French Line ships, because fires have become too frequent on French ships to be accidental, Frenchmen felt positive that the burning of the Paris was the work of foreign agents who do not want her used...
...fourth French liner to be destroyed by fire in seven years. While the Sûreté Nationale appealed for the author of the anonymous note to come forward, Mobile Guards were put on the big Normandie, just ready to leave dry dock near by. The masts had to be sawed off the Paris before the Normandie could be taken out to her dock. This week, while the Paris' passengers (and also Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh and two sons) were on the way to the U. S. on the Champlain the Sûreté had another mystery dumped...
Major Albert Brill (U. S. A., ret.) declared himself a candidate for the job of World Dictator, then sailed for Europe to arrange for foreign publication of his four volumes (Individual Ascendency, Collective Ascendency, Ascendent Government, Citizenship) that explain all. Said he: "The world is practically a vast lunatic asylum...