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As automobiles (about 180 per hour on weekdays) reach this section, they are halted by police for a rigorous inspection of tires, brakes, lights, windshield wipers, mirrors, signal devices, loads. The driver is inspected for sobriety. Those who are let through are given a card stamped with the time of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Ridge Route Tickets | 7/6/1936 | See Source »

"The first thing I knew about the trou ble," said Keeper Bjork afterward, "was when I heard Ed swear-and then I looked over that way. Wally had him on the ground with his left front foot on him and was trumpeting and stamping. He stamped and kicked at Ed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Must & Murder | 6/29/1936 | See Source »

Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera seemed stunned for a moment, then suddenly let out a roar like a wounded bull. He took his cap and flung it straight over the head of the presiding judge at the figure of Justice on the wall, tore off his gown and stamped on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Red-hot Blue shirt | 6/8/1936 | See Source »

At the trial a number of Cleveland's ex-bootleggers showed up to give the jury their idea of the money's source. During the palmy days of Prohibition, they testified, Captain Cadek systematically jailed every liquor dealer in his territory who failed to give him handsome, periodic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Graveyard Scoop | 6/8/1936 | See Source »

The audience wanted more of Toscanini, clapped, stamped, cheered. But the little Italian never returned. Instead Maurice Van Praag, the Orchestra's personnel manager, faced the clamoring crowd, said: "The man who just came down here and snapped that picture almost blinded our beloved Maestro. He asks me to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Flashlight Farewell | 5/11/1936 | See Source »

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