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...British are so under the thumb of the Zionists that they have forgotten the elementary facts of good administration in Palestine," said George Antonius, noted Arabian student of the Near East in a speech in Adams House last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FAILURE OF BRITISH RULE FORESEEN IN PALESTINE | 3/22/1935 | See Source »

From active service on the dangerous seas of the Spanish-American war to an obscure exhibit and improvised coat rack, might be the thumb-nail history of the swivel gun now located in the basement of the Freshman Union...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Glowering Bow Gun on Cruiser "Harvard" Now Improvised Coat Rack and Obscure Decoration | 3/13/1935 | See Source »

...expected to thumb This Week's pages, practically none will have the remotest idea whose show it is. Even if they knew the man's name- Joseph Palmer Knapp-it would mean little or nothing to them: just as it means nothing to the 8,250,000 readers of Collier's, American Magazine, Woman's Home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Knapp's Week | 2/25/1935 | See Source »

...Pacific Coast, to Warm Springs, to Washington. And soon other newshawks noted that he and Mrs. Dall got on well together. In November 1933, Boettigers wife, who had two children by a previous marriage, divorced him in Chicago. She charged cruelty, accused him of hitting her, breaking her thumb. Last July Anna Dall divorced Curtis Dall in Reno on grounds of extreme cruelty. Last month Boettiger quit his job as White House correspondent for the rabidly anti-New Deal Tribune, got a new and less embarrassing one with Cinema Tsar Will Hays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Dall-Boettiger | 1/28/1935 | See Source »

...fact that the baby's thumb guard was tied outside the night dress indicates that the snatcher would have to remove the thumb guard to remove the sleeping garment. The thumb guard was found some 3,000 ft. from the Lindbergh house. Therefore, contends the State, the child was probably killed when the ladder broke, its corpse stripped shortly after the kidnapper left the house. The sleeping suit was used as an earnest of good faith by the writer of the ransom notes, which the State's handwriting experts will attribute to Hauptmann...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: New Jersey v. Hauptmann | 1/14/1935 | See Source »

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