Word: denseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last April Mayor Kelly began a campaign against all forms of underworld skullduggery; his determination and that of his subordinates has brought results. This drive has concentrated on illicit gambling dens, alky-cookers' work-shops, and blemishes on the face of society. Swift and inexorable action on the part of...
Back from Wausau, Wis., where the temperature was 35°, to Manhattan, Chicago, Los Angeles, other U. S. fur-trading centres, journeyed last week some 70 fur buyers. At Hamburg, 20 miles from Wausau, is the 12,000-acre silver fox ranch of Fromm Bros., world's largest breeders...
In the penny arcades of upper Broadway, in the gaudy Sixth Avenue Sportland of Schork & Schaffer, in all the dark and smoky dens where New Yorkers drop hundreds of millions of nickels into coin machines and peep shows, the name of William Rabkin is great indeed. A fast-talking Jew...
Minor Prophet? Dickens' England was a country in which the Industrial Revolution was just getting under way. not without slime and soot. No observer of the contemporary scene could fail to notice the more noisome puddles, and Dickens soon made a name for himself as a crusader against social...
Died. Viscount Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, 71, Britain's Wartime Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; of heart disease after long illness; at Fallodon, Christen Bank, Northumberland. He was Foreign Secretary longer (1905-16) than any other man, was instrumental in shaping the policy which kept...