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Word: cleanness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Forthwith, a good deal of the filling in was done by John H. McEvers, special assistant to Attorney General Cummings who had been sent from Washington to clean up the last big gangster tax case left on the Federal docket. Prosecutor McEvers passed over Flegenheimer's novitiate in crime, which began when he served an apprenticeship under the late Jack ("Legs") Diamond, was interrupted when Flegenheimer went into hiding after his indictment two years ago, and officially ended when, terrified by the Government's bloody drive against the nation's mobsters, he gave himself up at Albany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Bronx Boy | 4/29/1935 | See Source »

...Izaak Walton League, the liars' division competed along the usual lines for the prize (a key to a sardine can) for telling the tallest fish story. In Los Angeles, Engineer L. M. Crow went up to the roof of a 14-story downtown skyscraper to empty and clean the water tank. He opened the outlet valve and out flopped a six-inch striped, small-mouthed bass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 29, 1935 | 4/29/1935 | See Source »

...years, could have retired in a year and a half. Cincinnati's offer was $25,000 but the city's brand new reform Charter looked far from permanent. Forfeiting his retirement pay, Col. Sherrill took the job. During the next five years, Col. Sherrill's clean, efficient management of Cincinnati s affairs became an historical example of good city government. A handsome, tactful North Carolinian, he made his decisions carefully, stuck to them. And when he resigned in 1930 to become a vice president of Cincinnati's Kroger Grocery & Baking Co., he was the most famed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Retailer's Voice | 4/29/1935 | See Source »

...Life is bound by no censorship, so why should the stage, which attempts to portray life, be censored?" Tallulah Bankhead, interviewed last night at the Plymouth Theatre, was giving her opinion of the move to "clean up the stage and screen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tallulah Bankhead Says Censoring of Films Silly as Trying to Outlaw Gin | 4/25/1935 | See Source »

With the best trio of pole vaulters in New England, Harvard can look for a clean sweep of the field over the high stands, and the meet may end with a triple tie for a new Harvard record when Woodberry, Schumann, and Dubiel swing into action...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VICTORY EXPECTED IN FRIDAY FIELD EVENTS | 4/24/1935 | See Source »

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