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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...absence of Ambassador William Bullitt. On a dais four judges in Soviet Army khaki took their places. President of the Court was thickset Judge Vassily Jakovlevich Ulrich, famed ever since he presided at the Soviet trial of British Metropolitan-Vickers engineers (TIME, April 24, 1933). Somewhat less light of step and pantherlike than usual entered Chief Prosecutor Andrei Vishinsky, longtime pouncer in broadcast Bolshevik trials. At the left of Judge Ulrich was the box of 16 prisoners around whom stood Red Army guards, changed every half hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Perfect Dictator | 8/31/1936 | See Source »

...Bring him out!" At 5:20 a.m. Bethea, his stomach bulging with chicken, pork chops and watermelon, was pushed through the crowd to the base of the platform. "I don't like to die with my shoes on." he said, sitting down on the bottom step and taking them off. Up the 13 steps to the platform he walked. Then for the first time the crowd learned that Sheriff Thompson could not nerve herself to her job. Fingering the trap lever instead was Arthur ("Daredevil Dick") Hasch, a pensioned Louisville policeman, deputized by Sheriff Thompson. The Sheriff miserably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Party | 8/24/1936 | See Source »

Last June the American Newspaper Guild officially became a Labor union by voting to join the American Federation of Labor. Guildmen hoped this step would enlist the active support of newspaper mechanical departments, other unionized groups, in their next strike. Last week in Seattle, for the first time since its birth in 1933, the newsmen's organization succeeded in closing down a major newspaper with a strike. That the suspended paper, the Post-Intelligencer, was the property of the Guild's No. 1 enemy, William Randolph Hearst, made the Seattle strike a notable milestone in the Guild...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Seattle Strike | 8/24/1936 | See Source »

...that their Civil Servants are "poorly paid," and constantly get fat offers from British business which they nearly always refuse because of their loyalty to public service. Sir Christopher maintained that if he had succeeded Sir Eric as Chairman of Imperial Airways it would have been at a salary step-down of $5,000 per year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Incorrupt Indiscretion | 8/17/1936 | See Source »

...forward, gives more room, makes the busses look almost the same at each end. They carry 36 passengers, three more than before, have roomier seats, indirect lighting. To eliminate "wheel seats" (seats over the wheel housing), the passenger deck is raised nearly 2 ft. so that passengers step up from the centre aisle. Made of aluminum, each coach is 5,000 lb. lighter than the old style, is rakishly painted to give an effect of graceful lines to its ugly rectangular bulk. First ones went into service last week between Boston and New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Greyhound's Litter | 8/10/1936 | See Source »

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