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Hunterdon County Courthouse, Flemington, N. J., Jan. 17-Bruno Richard Hauptmann, his nerves rubbed raw by a fortnight of accusation, sprang from his chair in the courtroom today and shouted "Liar!" at an agent of the United States Government...
...average police officer is an oldtime roundsman. Most D. O. I. men are college graduates. Jealousies and mutual mistrusts sprang up between local and Federal agencies. Local officers felt that they worked up a case only to have the "G men" step in and steal all credit for the catch...
...once, hoped she would stay. She was an efficient nurse, "never wasted time in being nice," was a great one for saying No or Humph. But she was in cahoots with all kinds of magical powers, astounded and captivated her charges by the series of delightful adventures she sprang on them. One night, to the children's dismay, the wind changed. Sure enough, Mary Poppins left. But she went away in style, by the umbrella route...
Disappointment was general that the Government apparently could not make up its mind to state just why a fellow-Bolshevik had slain Stalin's friend. Rumors that the act sprang from a "private grudge" were circulated by the Kremlin, but public curiosity for the real facts was so strong that every news kiosk was surrounded as soon as fresh papers arrived. Eager Russians snatched, read and flung down tons of papers in disgust when they proved to contain only propaganda, such as this telegram from beyond the Arctic Circle: "WE SHOCK BRIGADE WORKERS ON THE NEVA HYDROELECTRIC STATION PLEDGE OURSELVES...
...great legend of King George today is that Britain's markedly successful National Government sprang from a discreet stroke of statecraft by His Majesty. Three years ago George V is supposed to have persuaded James Ramsay MacDonald to desert his Labor colleagues of a lifetime and become the vote-getting figurehead of the so-called National (but in fact Conservative) Government (TIME, Aug. 31, 1931). Always the King is represented as a tower of moral strength, aiding his conscience-torn Scottish Prime Minister to decide between Labor and the Nation. Last week this pristine royal legend was rudely spattered...