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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Albert Prince, the handsome hollow-eyed Appellate Judge who was lured to Dijon fortnight ago and slain on a railroad track just before he was to testify concerning several of Stavisky's protectors (TIME, March 5). Whether Judge Prince was still alive when tied to the track was unknown, although a doctor discovered poison in his body tissues which seemed to indicate that he was already dead. By then a new theory had arisen, wild as anything in the entire case: Judge Prince was murdered by a gang of professional criminals that had revived the name and the manner...
...certain waters, especially those near the canneries they had built on Russian soil. It kept them absolutely out of other bays, inlets and river mouths. It required Japanese bidders to buy and deposit Russian bonds as security. Later, with the yen still at par (50?) and the ruble an unknown quantity in foreign exchange (although having an official gold parity value of 51? within Russia),. the Soviet Government broke all precedent by fixing a ruble-yen rate of exchange at 32.5 sen (16?). Meanwhile, Russian fishermen, starting with one-fifth of the business, had crowded their way into more than...
...persons is the same. In most commercial transactions a signature is considered as good as a face or a fingerprint. Even the most skilful forgers find it next to impossible to perform in public. Thus successful forgeries of travelers' checks, which must be countersigned under scrutiny, are almost unknown...
...cannot improve education at Harvard, if that is your aim, by making petty attacks on the personalities, evidently unknown to you, of departmental executives. D. J. Boorstin '34. R. B. Schlatter...
...excavations in Central America by Peabody Museum archeologists which brought forth a fortune in gold were revealed yesterday by H. B. Roberts and Samuel K. Lothrop '15, who have been carrying on explorations in Panama for three years. The archeological finds were made in the burial grounds of an unknown Central American tribe and are largely in the form of personal ornaments. The chieftains of the tribe were buried in giant stone slabs, in which were piled gold trinkets, precious stone, and brilliantly painted pottery. Some of the gold ornaments were valued at 100 to 150 dollars apiece...