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On a platform in Manhattan one day last week, under glaring spotlights, stood Harry Strauss registering easy contempt. His eyes were slits in a sallow, freshly-shaved face. His nails were well manicured, his thick, black hair sleekly pomaded. Over a blue suit pressed razor- smooth, with blue shirt and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Muss 'Em Up | 12/10/1934 | See Source »

After two days in jail Harry Strauss appeared in Brooklyn Homicide Court sleek, sneering, nattily dressed as ever. For the eighteenth time he went free, for lack of evidence.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Muss 'Em Up | 12/10/1934 | See Source »

When Turner began to appear in this gaudy get-up before he had made any real name for himself as a speed flyer, Cy Caldwell wrote prophetically in Aero Digest: "A pilot with nerve enough to wear that uniform and kick a half-grown lion in the pants is bound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Mildenhall to Melbourne | 10/29/1934 | See Source »

Francisco Examiner. They are all city editors, as important on their newspapers as first mates on ships - and as anonymous. Yet many and many a newsreader who never heard of his own paper's city editor, knows about Stanley Walker. In six years as city editor of the New...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: City Room Prophet | 10/22/1934 | See Source »

Italy's Foreign Minister was busy last week. Growing more & more nervous over his mounting influence in Austria and Hungary, Jugoslavia topped off a two-month press attack with a violent outburst against Fascist Italy and all its works. Published were entirely imaginary stories of strikes and riots in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Recall to Respect | 10/1/1934 | See Source »

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