Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...votes in Shelby County in 1936 by virtue of the Organization's backing. But after he took office he "began to eat too high on the hog." Cried Crump: "Gordon Browning is the kind of a man who would milk his neighbor's cow through a crack in the fence. In the art galleries of Paris there are 27 pictures of Judas Iscariot-none look alike but they all resemble Gordon Browning." In 1938, when Browning had the temerity to run for reelection, he was beaten; he lost Shelby County by 60,000 votes. No Tennessee politician missed...
...shouldn't," wrote Britain's crack war correspondent Alexander Graeme Clifford, "pay too much attention to Mr. Ingersoll.... But one must pay attention to what he stands for-an American point of view. History is in the oven now and soon it will be ready to serve...
Died. David Stewart Iglehart, 72, recently retired head of W. R. Grace & Co. (TIME, May 20), dean of the Long Island polo-playing set, father of crack Poloists Stewart (10-goal handicap) and Philip; in Old Westbury...
...next and last 59 pages of Past All Dishonor describe Roger's and Morina's activities as murderers and train robbers. Little is heard save the crack of Roger's .36, the thud of dropping corpses, and Morina's trills of sadistic ecstasy. It all winds up with Morina lying dead in the snow, covered with stolen jewels, and a posse closing in on lonesome Roger. Far away in the background, the Civil War pursues its peaceful course, untroubled by the agonies of love...
Thus unmasked as the leader of a counterfeit gold coin ring, the 24-year-old, French Canadian Besson admitted that high finance was in his blood-he was a nephew of the late, crack-pate deputy Philibert Hippolyte Marcelin Besson, called "the Incredible," famed for his Ed Wynn hairdo and his Europa Dollar. The Incredible, who flourished in the '303, had a theory: Europe could cure its ills in a jiffy by adopting his "international currency based on hours of labor." He burned up the Continent's roads on a motorcycle with wide-open cutout trying to peddle...