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Word: fortes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Palisades Amusement Park (Fort Lee, N. J.) police raided "The Human Slave Market," where men & women had been offering themselves in matrimony to the highest bidder. Each "slave" carried a placard (example: "Today's special-a law graduate with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 31, 1939 | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

FREDERICK MILLER Fort Worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 24, 1939 | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

...Fort Smith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 24, 1939 | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

...Launay, displayed the white flag and opened the gates, but drew up the drawbridge after soldiers and citizens entered, and his troops opened fire, killing 30. After three hours of cannonading the walls were breached and "The great and important scene now followed. The GOVERNOR, the PRINCE, the FORT MAJOR and Officers were conveyed to the HOTEL DE VILLE, and after a SHORT TRIAL . . . M. DE LAUNAY and the MAJOR were executed by first SHOOTING, and then CUTTING OFF THEIR HEADS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: A Dreadful Havock | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

...Pitchfork supported Pa Ferguson, and its editor once sued a newspaper for the 5? he had paid for a copy only to find nothing about Ferguson in it. Ten years ago Pitchfork Smith 'walked into a church where Fort Worth's Rev. J. Frank Norris (who had just been acquitted of murder) was preaching, shook his finger in the preacher's face, boomed: "Dr. Norris, you murdered D. E. Chipps." Threatened by the congregation, he shouted: "Come on, I'm not afraid of a mob! I can lick a mob with a switch!" He was charged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: End of Old Pitch | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

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