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Word: franked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lowden. In Illinois, the State Supreme Court declared constitutional a law substituting a primary election for the caucus system of nominating candidates for state offices, including delegates to President-nominating conventions. Underlings of Frank Orren Lowden hastened to enter his name as a primary candidate, rejoicing that he now had a chance to get nominating votes in his home State, where, while the caucus system prevailed, he was at the mercy of the State Bosses, Mayor Thompson of Chicago and Governor Len Small. Lowdenites felt better about the East, too. Following their still-pond-no-more-moving policy, State Bosses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Booms | 2/13/1928 | See Source »

...most brutally frank and clarifying discussion of the continued French occupation of part of the German Rhineland* took place, last week, at long range, between Foreign Minister Dr. Gustav Stresemann, addressing the Reichstag in smashing style, and Foreign Minister Aristide Briand of France, replying still more vigorously before Le Sénat, in Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Decks Cleared | 2/13/1928 | See Source »

...said softly, 'I'm going to get you!' " But so multifarious are the disguises and devices with which Squealer cloaks his criminal doings that no one, not even the reader, can guess who he is. Dangerous doings centre around a London import and export concern; there is jolly old Frank Sutton, who runs this company; his gen eral manager is a surly individual, Captain John Leslie, known to be an ex-convict, to whom Sutton in his generous but perhaps too innocent fashion has given "another chance;" functioning under Captain Leslie is the inscrutable Tillman, always poking his nose into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cops and Robbers | 2/13/1928 | See Source »

...soon; nor will the astute reader mistake Tillman's inscrutability for that of a "squealer." Who wishes to marry Beryl Stedman although, she, while she admires his generous, open nature, cannot bring herself to love him? Is not the squealer suspected of being a bigamist and is not merry Frank Sutton overfamiliar with his gaudy secretary? In the big unmasking scene at the end of the book, everything is neatly explained. Sutton is indeed the squealer and he will hang for his bad acts; his secretary is his accomplice. Captain Leslie is none other than the shrewd Detective Barrabal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cops and Robbers | 2/13/1928 | See Source »

Today for the first time in its history the CRIMSON is giving one of its candidates a chance to express in print his frank opinion of a CRIMSON competition. Although the candidate in question is in the last stages of his competition and has consequently passed through the depression and discouragement of the first few weeks, his view of CRIMSON work is not blurred by the softening mist which separates the usual graduate editor from the scene of his undergraduate labors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAN BEHIND THE GUNS | 2/6/1928 | See Source »

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