Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Published weekly by TIME, Inc., at The Penton Building, Lakeside Ave. and West Third St., Cleveland, Ohio. Subscriptions $5 a year. Entered as second-class matter Aug. 25, 1925 at the postoffice, Cleveland, Ohio under the act of March...
...When West Point Cadets attend chapel, clear and true peal out the notes of the chapel organ. Last week, however, the organ's integrity was seriously threatened. It seemed possible that in the not distant future it would be giving forth sour, discordant notes, offensive to the sensibilities of future generals. For the State of New York planned to run a new highway through the academy grounds, not far from the chapel and it appeared that the vibration from countless passing motor cars would be gravely detrimental to the pitch and harmony of the organ's music...
...Davis has issued a permit for this highway back in October, 1926. But Colonel Hodges said that the permit was revoked and it appeared that Secretary Davis was ready to back him up-the New York Herald Tribune, indeed, printed a picture of the Secretary with the title "Guards West Point's organ...
There was a strange trial at Benton, Ill., last week. Three men- Charles Birger, Art Newman and Ray Hyland, gangsters all-were on trial for murder. The state claimed that they had paid Harry Thomasson, 19, and Elmo Thomasson, 17, $50 apiece to kill Mayor Joe Adams of West City, Ill., last winter (TIME, Feb. 21). The jury was chosen, the prosecution made its case, it was time for the defense to offer its testimony. But, one after the other, attorneys for Messrs. Birger, Newman and Hyland announced that their clients would not testify. Neither did they offer any other...
...Great Mail Robbery. Those who would renew their acquaintance with The Great Train Robbery of cinema's infancy may do well to contemplate The Great Mail Robbery, wherein armored trucks, machine guns, tear gas and other refinements of crime are employed in the Wild West as a background for old-fashioned vanquish-the-villain-hug-the-heroine melodramatics in modern clothes...