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...typical suicide was Patrolman Max Finkelstein, who won fame as the leader of a squad of Jewish policemen assigned by Mayor LaGuardia in 1938 to guard Manhattan's Nazi consulate. After a spotless record of 29 years, Captain Finkelstein last fortnight asked for retirement, was told that he would be required to face charges of accepting irregular bail bonds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Policemen Suicides | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

...member. Total passenger deaths: nine. Thereafter, despite a travel increase estimated at 40% over 1938, there was no other passenger fatality for the rest of the year. All told, the lines piled up about 733,000,000 passenger miles -423,000,000 of them during the year's spotless last half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Safety Upstairs | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

Constancia de la Mora was born in Madrid, in 1906. Her grandfather Don Antonio, an old man of majestic beauty, was Spain's greatest statesman; and she was subjected to the petrifying education which was the privilege of females of her class. When she was 20, in spotless ignorance, she married a pathic provincial nearly seven feet tall, who gave her a daughter and lived off her money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Spanish Histories | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...possibility that the Bollesmen can sink the Elis and thus set a precedent is great, with an experienced, smoothly working eight pulling the Crimson-tipped oars this spring. The paper odds that quote Yale a slight favorite on the strength of its spotless record should prove a help to the Crimson, for the Elis do not deserve their top-dog rating, and the psychological effect on Harvard should be an asset...

Author: By Joseph P. Lyford, | Title: CRIMSON NAVY AIMS AT FOURTH STRAIGHT VICTORY OVER UNDERFEATED ELI TOMORROW | 6/22/1939 | See Source »

Scrubbed annually and painted in alternate years, the white subterranean walls are spotless. To further insure cleanliness, food is conveyed in covered food-wagons, along constantly mopped floors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tunnels Between House Dining Halls Comprise Underworld of University | 12/2/1938 | See Source »

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