Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...game surprisingly similar to Darrow's and known as Monopoly was played on home-made boards in the D.K.E. house at Williams College in 1927 et seq. It developed in Reading, Pa. much earlier than that...
...Bureau of Internal Revenue's Assistant General Counsel. Rated the No. 1 prosecutor of the Bureau of Internal Revenue, this Jamestown, N. Y. attorney had personal charge of the Government's attempt to collect $3,000,000 of additional taxes from Andrew William Mellon (TIME, April 15 et ante...
...velvet curtains behind the austere columns parted, and the silk-robed Justices rustled to their seats. Breathless was the crowd as Chief Justice Hughes began to read. After the first sentence, the crowd sighed. Even the deepest-dyed Liberal hardly gave a hoot that day about Brown et al. v. State of Mississippi-three Negroes convicted of murder, whose statements, claimed to have been made when they were brutally whipped by deputy sheriffs, were admitted in evidence as confessions. The Chief Justice of the U. S. was not disinterested. With vibrant voice he called attention to the "due-process" clause...
...outnumbered the Japanese-Manchus at least two-to-one and Japanese war planes were about to rush belatedly to the rescue clear across the mountains from Tsitsihar, the war base established by Japanese after they defeated famed General Ma and set up the Manchu Emperor (TIME, Nov. 16, 1931 et seq.). Relations Ruptured- In jittery fear lest Eastern Asia be plunged into a great war by the fighting begun last week, the more prosperous subjects of His Imperial Majesty Kang Te hastily fled from Manchukuo this week to China until all transport facilities were crushingly overtaxed. In Harbin, the Russian...
...cinemactress Claire Windsor in 1925. Magnin's will take only lines that it can handle exclusively in its territory. One of its West Coast exclusives is Hattie Carnegie gowns. Magnin keeps a buyer in Paris to watch styles, purchase creations by Lanvin, Vionnet, Patou, Schiaparelli, Chanel, Molyneux et...