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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus for the third time in three years did an Alabama jury last week decide the fate of 20-year-old Negro Heywood Patterson. Accused with eight other Negroes of raping two white girls in a freight car near Scottsboro, he had twice been saved from the electric chair by judicial appeal. The first conviction was set aside by the U. S. Supreme Court last year and a new trial ordered (TIME, Nov. 14, 1932). The second was voided by the judge at the second trial who claimed the verdict was unwarranted by the evidence. This time at Decatur Patterson...
...Rome. Of all places Commissar Litvinoff chose the city of Pope Pius XI and of Benito Mussolini as his next destination. Just before sailing from Manhattan on the crack Italian liner Conte de Savoía he lost his hat twice in a wild mêlée of Communist sympathizers and autograph hunters, retrieved it a second time with the merry cry, ''Ah-at last I have caught your American tempo...
...which he wanted to play. Between 1911 and 1918 he rose from No. 10 to No. 4 of national singles players. In 1912, he and Harold H. Hackett won the national clay court doubles championship. He was thrice winner of the Middle States Singles Championship (1911-18-19), twice runner-up in the National Clay Court Singles...
...just ''took things easily," never tried hard, never let other people know what he was trying for. He married twice. He traveled. With his own hands he tinkered with his Ford coupe and battered old Duesenberg. In February 1932 by dickering with Blyth & Co. and J. & W. Seligman, he, aged 39, got control of 520,000 of the 1,000,000 shares of Pacific Western Oil Corp...
...average swimmer in the pool of the Indoor Athletic Building assumes that the water in the pool is changed once or twice a day, as is the case in most pools. As a matter of fact it is renewed but twice during the entire year, although it is constantly running in and out of the pool. This is made possible by a complicated system of baths through which the water passes. The pool is 75 feet by 40 feet with depths of 7 1-2 and 11 1-2 feet at the ends. Its capacity is 225,000 gallons...