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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prosecution's witnesses will be many. First on the list is Col. Lindbergh. He will swear that he recognized the voice of Hauptmann as the one which called "Hey, doctor, over here, doctor!" the night that he and Dr. John F. ("Jafsie") Condon passed the $50,000 ransom over a Bronx cemetery wall in a vain attempt to get the baby back. About all Nurse Gow can say is that she did not see the kidnapper. Joseph Perrone, a New York taxicab driver, will identify Hauptmann as the man who gave him a dollar to take the message...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: At Flemington | 12/31/1934 | See Source »

...million, began delivering lectures about Mr. Will Shakespeare's plays." And though he cannot cast more than a flickering light on the puzzling questions he cheerfully mopes over, there is sometimes a reassuring enthusiasm in his incoherence: "You have to be an American to understand the Americans. I swear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Anderson Embers | 12/31/1934 | See Source »

...stale in Moscow's onetime Nobles' Club, the corpse was cremated and the ashes poured into a bronze urn. This the Dictator and other pallbearers carried to a niche in the Kremlin wall after two hours of speechmaking. Their keynote: more and better vengeance. Cried Premier Vyacheslav Molotov: "We swear to carry on a merciless fight against every enemy of our Revolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Pure Terror | 12/17/1934 | See Source »

...swear to observe and enforce the Constitution of the United States of Mexico, as well as the laws emanating therefrom?" rumbled Don Enrique Gonzalez Flores, President of the Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Palm Down | 12/10/1934 | See Source »

...swear to be loyal and obedient to the Leader of the German Realm and People, Adolf Hitler; to exert my powers for the welfare of the German people; to obey the laws conscientiously; to fulfill my duties impartially and with justice to all men; so help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: For Life | 10/29/1934 | See Source »

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