Word: aug
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...young hero appeared last week in the flesh of Thomas Edmund Dewey, 36, who, unlike his counterparts in Hollywood and elsewhere, has as his chief asset not theatricality but thoroughness. Thoroughly for three years he went about smashing the prostitution, restaurant and poultry rackets of New York City (TIME, Aug. 15, et ante) while his files on the "numbers" or "policy" racket, most lucrative of all, slowly accumulated. And last week, when his big numbers racket case finally went to trial, there was only one defendant, the biggest single political boss remaining in Tammany's battered machine...
From Jerusalem last week the New York Times Correspondent Joseph M. Levy cabled the text of the fatwa by which Iraq Moslem leaders last fortnight decreed a jihad (Holy War) against Britons and Jews in Palestine (TIME, Aug...
...Herr Henlein turned up in brown tweed coat, grey flannel slacks and white shoes. Present was the German agent known as "Princess Steffi," who generally operates in London. There she has been hostess to Herr Henlein and to Adolf Hitler's personal agent, Captain Wiedemann (TIME, Aug. 1). From the castle windows the conferees could see the Sudeten Mountains and the German frontier, patrolled unceasingly before their eyes by fighting planes of Czechoslovakia and the Reich. The meeting lasted from...
Sergeant Charles Frederick Jackson, recently court-martialed for watering the beer of officers at the Tower of London whose duty is to keep the Crown Jewels safe (TIME, Aug. 15), was sentenced last fortnight for his unique and, in Britain, sensational crime...
Marie Antoinette (Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power, Robert Morley; TIME, Aug...