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...Home Guardsman Harry Foulds was haled before the magistrates of Chatham, Kent, charged with theft from the Crown of a pistol, ammunition and a helmet which he had taken from a bailed-out German airman. Defense Counsel Gerald Thesinger based his case on Rex v. Broom, in the reign of William III, which was based in turn on a case tried during the reign of Henry VIII. These cases upheld the right of any British subject to retain any property he may be able to seize from "the King's enemy." "Therefore," argued Thesinger, "the property was never vested...
...magistrates upheld the 260-year-old decision of Rex v. Broom and freed Foulds, who was carried from the court by cheering crowds...
...Moley, Rex Tugwell, Jim Farley, John Hanes, et al.) were some of greater stature than the departed Assistant Secretary of War. But among them was none more loyal at the start, more bitter at the finish...
WHERE THERE'S A WILL - Rex Stout-Farrar & Rinehart ($2). April, May and June Hawthorne, three weird sisters, take the woes of their brother's will to lazy, orchid-loving Nero Wolfe...
...minor crack-ups to break the monotony-the race began to get exciting. Shaw, who had been leading the field, stopped at his pit for new tires and a tank-load of fuel (alcohol). When he returned to the track two-and-a-half minutes later, he found Rex Mays, Mauri Rose, Ted Horn and Joel Thorne ahead of him. For 60 miles he chased them. As they momentarily dropped out, one by one, for refueling, Shaw whizzed ahead, gained a one-lap lead on Mays...