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Word: ganges (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Year ago when Franklin Roosevelt went before Congress to describe the State of the Union he delivered a message that was far less a communication than a challenge. It denounced "entrenched greed." "unscrupulous money changers," "discredited special interests," "political puppets of an economic autocracy." those who '" 'gang up' against the people's liberties." It was called the first gun of the campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mopping Up | 1/18/1937 | See Source »

...Woman Alone (Gaumont British). Sylvia Verloc (Sylvia Sidney) is unaware that her stolid, bear-faced husband (Oscar Homolka), proprietor of a London cinemansion, is the hireling of a gang of terrorists. While she tends her little brother Stevie, Verloc douses all the lights of London by sabotaging the generators. Next he is ordered to blow up Piccadilly Circus by leaving a bomb in the Underground station. Meanwhile, a handsome Scotland Yarder has him under surveillance, also makes eyes at Sylvia. Unable to leave the house without being detected, Verloc sends Stevie to plant the bomb. Unwitting Stevie dawdles, is blown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 18, 1937 | 1/18/1937 | See Source »

...decency of Great Guy is guaranteed by the fact that its hero, Johnny Cave, is an honest public official fighting a gang of political crooks. Johnny's position on the side of law & order does not prevent him from using guttersnipe technique...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 11, 1937 | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

Last month a steel elevated train rammed a wooden one on Chicago's North Side, killing11, injuring 67. Some of the victims complained of ambulance chasers. Last week, after a secret investigation, police arrested eight ringleaders, estimated that their gang comprised 1,500 lawyers, doctors, undertakers, hospital attaches, police station loungers, runners, streetcar motormen, professional witnesses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Chasers Chased | 1/4/1937 | See Source »

...good faith by paying the patient's bill in advance. He soon got Doe to sign a contract hiring his employer and agreeing to pay him 50% of the money won from a damage suit against the taxi company. Then Doe was transferred to a hospital where the gang had a doctor. X-rays were taken of his leg, retouched to indicate it was broken. The plates won a fat fee from the taxi company, but Doe never saw his share. Kept in the hospital for weeks recovering from injuries he did not have, he ended up with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Chasers Chased | 1/4/1937 | See Source »

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