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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yard. Even at Giggleswick little boys know that Scotland Yard has been rocked by scandalous exposures (TIME, July 16) and that the weighty War prestige of Lord Byng is counted on to steady matters down. Especially do naughty little Giggleswickers know about Miss Irene Savidge, who was made to show her pink petticoat in the course of a Scotland Yard Third Degree which caused the scandal to break. With a rousing, boyish cheer the Giggleswickers greeted great Viscount Byng of Vimy. At 65 some men have grown a little old, querulous and malapropian but Hero Byng would speak inspiring words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Funny Old Things | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

...jurors seek to avoid the service because of its discomforts or because they dislike to leave their business. "6) Unrestricted traffic in firearms. . . . And Retiring-President Strawn went further. He faced what has been going on around him in Chicago ever since Prohibition. He said: "The crime surveys show that crimes of violence, especially in the urban centres, committed largely by bootleggers and beer runners, have increased to an alarming extent. It is asserted that the existing condition conduces to a growing disregard of all law, especially by our young people, to an extent that is appalling. Frequently we read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Crime, Rex | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

...Latest Department of Commerce figures show for various denominations: Congregational...................................... 901,846 Protestant Episcopal ...........................1,858,966 Disciples of Christ.............................. 1,377,595 Northern Baptist Convention............ 1,290,438 Presbyterian......................................... 1,894,000 Methodist Episcopal Church, South..................................... 2,487,694 Methodist Episcopal Church, North...................................... 4,080,777 Jewish................................................... 4,087,357 American Baptist Association............... 117,858 Church of God, Holiness............................ 2,278 Free Church of God in Christ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Vatican Notes: Aug. 6, 1928 | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

...brother-in-law was drugged we must know about it, if possible. Suicide is out of the question. On the day before his death Captain Loewenstein telephoned one of his closest friends that he was on his way to see his son ride in the horse show at Geneva. He was a man too happy to commit suicide." Autopsy findings. ". . . many multiple fracture wounds, proving that the fall was from a great height ... no trace of drugs or poisons . . . muscular derangement . . . evidence that he was alive when he struck the water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Loewenstein Found | 7/30/1928 | See Source »

Then along came the apparel merchants and an architect named Walter W. Ahl-schlager, 41, who had created Roxy's cinema cathedral in Manhattan, apparently out of golden dough. They would show Chicago something to write postcards about-the largest and tallest building in the world-75 stories and 845 feet high . . . containing 4,650,000 sq. ft. of floor space . . . costing $45,000.000 . . . covering two blocks with its base . . . comprising a 23 story "apparel-mart" near the ground . . . above that 22 stories of office space . . . above that a 1,000 room hotel ... a garage containing space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Marts | 7/30/1928 | See Source »

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