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Almost unnoticed, while the world watched Neville Chamberlain come home from having a dish of tea with Adolf Hitler (see p. 15), the Prime Minister's half sister-in-law Lady Chamberlain came home last week from having dishes and dishes of tea with Señora Carmen Franco and the Rightist Generalissimo. She was instantly denounced by Leftists of all shades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Lady C. and Peace | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

...Leftist spokesman of the Spanish Embassy in London: "If she is as interested in Government Spain as in Franco Spain, why didn't she include Government Spain in her tour?" Admitting that she was receiving hundreds of letters from irate Leftists, the conservative Prime Minister's sister-in-law explained unperturbed, "In our Barcelona canteen we are feeding 4,000 people every day. Our fund is expending 312 pounds ($1,500) per month on each side in Spain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Lady C. and Peace | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

Engaged. Sally Poor Clark, 18, nightclub singing sister-in-law of John Aspinwall Roosevelt; and George Xavier McLanahan, 25; in Nahant, Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 22, 1938 | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

...child well, and knew how much money James Bailey Cash, the father, had in the bank-just about $10,000, the sum asked for in ransom. McCall had professed great sympathy for the bereaved parents, had joined the first searching parties. But Mr. Cash's brother and sister-in-law grew suspicious of him when: 1) he "found" one of the ransom notes under Brother Cash's store door, 2) he remarked how easy it would be to break into their house. They told Sheriff Coleman, who trapped McCall in a fake alibi and turned him over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: $5 Atrocity | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

...Asahi. Ryuichi Yoshikawa, a 27-year-old painter in Osaka, begged his parents and older brother to let him marry a geisha girl. They refused. That night, while the family slept, Ryuichi got a heavy knife and methodically chopped off the heads of his father, mother, sister, brother, sister-in-law, six-year-old nephew and three-year-old niece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Experience Unnecessary | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

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