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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outrageous charges!" He gave the answer last week in Old Bailey, or rather there was no answer. Sentence: four years penal servitude. Next case? "Jake the Barber." About to break last week was a swindle story which U. S. Department of Justice operatives in Chicago and Philadelphia said will reveal a "monster ring of British swindlers" led by Chicago's dapper John ("Jake the Barber") Factor. According to the Secret Service, Mr. Factor, operating with British associates in London and at Le Touquet, has fleeced numerous prominent Britons, including Edward of Wales, out of no less than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Great Swindles | 5/25/1931 | See Source »

Revived last week in Manhattan was the Gilbert & Sullivan operetta The Mikado, presented by Milton Aborn's Civic Light Opera Company. Oldtimers in the audience flinched when the curtain rose to reveal a meaningless shadowgraph sequence of Japanese town life, a very un-Gilbertian interpolation. But all was set right again when Howard Marsh stepped out and began to sing "Gentlemen, I pray you tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Revival: May 18, 1931 | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

...Because doctors and relatives refused for several days to reveal Dr. Brooks's condition, the Waco papers?the News-Tribune and Times-Herald?carried little or no news on the city's biggest story. It was unearthed by United and Associated Pressmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Bravery at Baylor | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

...This is certainly one of the two or three most important discoveries of source material for the history of America in the 19th Century. . . . These letters reveal the part President Buchanan played in forcing Democratic disruption in the 1860 campaign which insured the election of Abraham Lincoln. . . . It seems well within the range of probability that except for Buchanan, Douglas would have become President and the Civil War post-poned and possibly altogether averted. The Douglas letters reveal the existence of a strong Union sentiment throughout the South as late as April 15, 1861.? Important figures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Little Giant's Letter | 5/4/1931 | See Source »

...monument (Yale's new library) will indeed remain through the centuries as a memorial to the character of its builders. For ages it will unmercifully reveal their soul. It will tell the story of American wealth and academic culture of the earlier twentieth century. Skyscrapers narrate only a part of the story; in a generation they must give way to others, and in their mortality lies their smallness. The Yale library will not give away, and historians, philosophers, and sight-seers in five hundred years will reconstruct the America of our day form its venerable stones...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cathedral Culture | 4/28/1931 | See Source »

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