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Word: districts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Darden to whom you refer and I am enclosing for your information a copy of an order from the District Court of Tarrant County, Texas, issued in 1924 giving me the right to continue the use of my name for business purposes, although married to a man of another name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 23, 1929 | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

Blackmail. Two Bostonian District Attorneys and a Federal District Attorney's assistant put the "age-old badger game on a big business basis." It cost disporting cinema tycoons $105,000 to hush up one party; $120,000 preserved the reputation of a famed tenor; $380,000 kept a New England railroad president's name unsullied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: Bawdy Boston | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...fiscal affairs-7? ($285,731,018, including tax refunds, veterans' insurance, administration of the District of Columbia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: Budget in Green | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...least resistance line, his respect for the past. As the straight line is best for the ideal city, the curved line being too rococco and impractical in an age of metal construction, the city of the future must be planned rectangularly. His projected city has a concentrated business district in the centre of vast areas of suburban residence zones. In the morning the workers pass by rapid transit to large "vomitories" or stations whence they are whisked by subways to the basements of their respective skyscrapers. The vertical city quickly fills up, work is begun. Shortly after noonday the working...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Future Cities | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...medal with 136, four better than Diegel. Before long he disappeared into the traps that medalists so often discover in a match play. Harry Cooper, who had been given a starting time, was ruled out because he had not played in the elimination tournament in his district. Tommy Armour, one-eyed Scot, was sick at home. Al Espinosa put out Bill Melhorn in a match that went 40 holes, then was put out himself by Watrous. In the finals Farrell kept on Diegel's heels until the ninth hole in the afternoon when he knocked the wrong ball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Dials for Diegel | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

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