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Word: forli (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Vignettes of blood on snow: a man in a guard's blue jacket and reefer, his long, impassive face, with its heavy eyebrows, oblique eyes, long upper lip and thin mouth pushed into the ground, lying dead, his head pointed toward freedom. That was Convict Sullivan in clothes he had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Again, Auburn | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

At twilight the machine guns on the walls were quiet, still waiting. A thousand people and a regiment of militia were at the gates. An airplane droned overhead. Death came for the rioters across the yard, up into the cell block, past the barricades which they had piled up with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Again, Auburn | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

Behind the last barricade one Steven Pawlak, lifer, stood up. "Go to hell," he snarled. Troopers crossed the barricade after the last wooden-sounding machine gun volley. They found all the last six rebels dead in a pile. Warden Jennings, dragged to safety when the convicts charged the gate, was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Again, Auburn | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

Last week Chairman Owen D. Young of Radio Corp. of America appeared as a witness before the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee. In one word he approved a bill by Senator Couzens to create a Federal Communications Commission comparable to the Interstate Commerce Commission; in many words he pleaded for two...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Monopolies Wanted | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

2) Better sending and delivery facilities for all.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Monopolies Wanted | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

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