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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ordinary "bobby." He has left his mark upon the Chinese dens of Limehouse. the anarchists' haunts and crime slums of Shoreditch, Hackney. Wapping. There he learned to be fearless while carrying no gun (London "bobbies," the world's best, are forbidden firearms). From the very first he saw excitement. In 1888 the Whitechapel District of London was being terrorized by the murders of "Jack the Ripper." Suddenly in a great crowd of people a child or a young girl would be found murdered and mutilated with a knife. No one ever saw "Jack." The C. I. D. and Policeman Wensley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Scotland Yardsman | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

Those who saw Baron Passfield glance occasionally at the Peeresses' Gallery, wondered what he was thinking, how much of his nervousness might derive from a gracious lady of 71 who sat there calmly watching the ceremony. She, Mrs. Beatrice Webb, last week proved again that she is the same independent, energetic person who, even before her marriage in 1892 to Sidney Webb, was an authority on economics. She has collaborated with him since on more than 30 books and tracts. In 1923 after 30 years as active members of the Labor and Socialist movement they framed their first indictment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Gnome in Ermine | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

...Author. Born in Camden, S. C., John K. Winkler went to school in Manhattan. In 1908, aged 18, he got his first and only regular job, as a reporter for William Randolph Hearst, whom he seldom saw but about whom he was to do his most ambitious writing prior to this book in a series for The New Yorker, Manhattan smartchart, later bound as Hearst, An American Phenomenon. Author Winkler left the newsgathering business five years ago but still sleeps by day, works or plays by night. Closely related to a Baptist minister, it is perhaps through this connection that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Doctor's Son | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

Wabash Plan. The opening of the present week saw another disturbance of the rail status quo, and again the movement was pro-Pennsylvania and anti-Baltimore & Ohio. The Wabash Railway proposed a plan which aimed at creating a 7,044-mile system with the 2,400-mile Wabash as a nucleus. Major links in the proposed Wabash chain were the Pittsburgh & West Virginia, Wheeling & Lake Erie, Western Maryland, Lehigh Valley. The Wabash plan clashes with the Baltimore & Ohio plan (TIME, March 4) at almost every conceivable point. In the first place, the Wabash itself was the most vital unit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Ford to Penn | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

From a window in the locker room of the Winged Foot Golf Club at Mamaroneck, N. Y., you can see the 18th green of the West Course. Through that window last week, Al Espinosa, managing director of the Sportsmen's Country Club at Glencoe, Ill., saw something he will never forget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: National Open | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

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