Word: trails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wanderer was his only book, but that his influence was still alive in France was shown last week, with the U. S. publication of "Robert Francis' " The Wolf at the Door (original title: La Grange aux Trois Belles). As different as could be from such trail-blazing contemporaries as Louis-Ferdinand Celine (Journey to the End of the Night) and Andre Malraux (Man's Fate), "Robert Francis" (real name: Jean Godmé) follows his romantic bypath in the footsteps of Alain Fournier, Charles Dickens and Hans Christian Andersen. Critics will note a long gap between Author Francis...
Promptly on George Weyerhaeuser's release after payment of $200,000 ransom (TIME, June 10), Chief Hoover had issued a serial number list of the ransom bills, put 100 of his agents on the kidnappers' trail. Within a few days 30 of the bills had turned up in Utah banks, been traced to Salt Lake City stores. A local detective was waiting when, one week to a day after the kidnapped boy's release, a short, brown-haired woman walked into a Salt Lake City 5-&-10? store, made a small purchase. At the cashier...
Franklin Roosevelt has been too long in public life not to have left a well-documented trail of opinions on most subjects, including the Constitution, behind him. Republican editors, like bloodhounds on the scent, soon sniffed out and printed with gleeful gusto a speech he made by radio in 1930 when he was Governor of New York. Broadcasting to the nation Mr. Roosevelt had declared: "It was clear to the framers of our Constitution that . . . any national Administration attempting to make all laws for the whole nation, such as was wholly practical in Great Britain, would inevitably result...
...stage half a century ago. Some villain had struck down a middleaged, grey-haired man, rolled him up in curtains, then in linoleum, finally in carpets and tied the big bundle with a rope. When Sir Bernard Spilsbury arrived the usual London headlines suggested that not even this murder trail could be too cold for his keen, Sherlocking nose. Sniffed he: "I should say this man was killed about 1885 and was at that time about 55 years old. There are certain peculiar marks where the skull was indented by a blow which may prove significant...
...they each had about $15,000 worth of gold. Just as they were getting ready to leave, another U. S. prospector found their hidden camp, promised them all a fortune if they would stay on with him. They might have been tempted if bandits had not picked up their trail and given them a bad scare before the federal soldiers drove them...