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Word: copping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cop's Job. The functions of the Attorney General's office are three: i) It pays off heavy political debts (even more liberally than the Post Office) with assistant attorney generalships, U. S. judgeships,- district attorneyships. 2) It advises Congress on the constitutionality of pending legislation and defends the constitutionality of that legislation when passed. 3) It enforces the laws of the land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Lay Bishop | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

When Tourist Joseph Patrick Kennedy Jr., 23-year-old son of the U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, went for a swim at San Sebástian beach in Franco's Spain, he was tapped by a Spanish cop, who quoted Spain's antiquated new beach laws (TIME, Aug. 7), made him don a top to his bathing suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 14, 1939 | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

When a Laguna Beach, Calif. garage owner named Harold Bradley was solemnly tapped on the back by his grey-haired fellow citizen Roy M. Ropp and told: "You are The Laughing Cavalier," he neither called a cop, took to his heels, nor swung on the tapper. Like all good Lagunites, Bradley knew at once that this tapping singled him out for an honor-the honor of depicting one of the Living Masterpieces in Director Ropp's famed "Pageant of the Masters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: In Laguna | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

...Senate in 1935; Edmund Arthur Ball of Muncie, member of the rich glass-jar family; and Fred Bays, a dapper, saturnine oldtime dancer and circus man. Him they made Democratic State Chairman, to handle ballyhoo. Besides banners, bands and buttons, Mr. Bays uses tap dancers, a singing cop, contortionists. When the McNutt campaign gets going nationally, the country may see something remarkable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: White-Haired Boy | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

...Wheeling Steel program is Little Steel's most ambitious radio venture. In the broadcasts, products like Cop-R-Loy pipe and Ductillite tin plate get a mention, but the main idea is to make the U. S.' public pals with Wheeling Steel. A far more ingratiating ambassador for Little Steel than Tom Girdler, the Wheeling Steel half-hour is also an economical adventure in employe participation. The employes boom the company's products and hence help along their own prosperity But judged by other half-hour musical shows, many of which cost as much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Musical Steelmakers | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

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