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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hyman Biller (alias Gill Biller), 42, 5 ft. 4 in., 140 lb., brown eyes, scar on left forehead, wanted for the murder of Arnold Rothstein last year (TIME, Dec. 24). A gambler and bookmakers' cashier, Biller frequents race tracks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Badly Wanted' | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

...letter of Thomas T. Gill in the issue of June 24 and your footnotes appended, concerning license tags on cars, was interesting. He named three States (your footnote adding another) designating their tags as front and rear, and likewise the three States had laws banning the teaching of the theory of evolution in state-aided schools. I wish to add that Kentucky also has the front tag designated as front and the rear designated as, "Kentucky for Progress." The last motto is a standing joke among Kentuckians and many motorists have been fined for mutilating their tags to obliterate this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 8, 1929 | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

...both ends of the car differently? Just last week I saw evidence that at least one person from the three above named States had a sense of humor. He had the "rear" license plate in front, and the "front" plate on the rear. More power to him! THOMAS T. GILL...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 24, 1929 | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

...Yale). Time--21 9-10 sec. Second heat--won by Wildermuth (Georgetown); second, Wehner (Southern California); third, Morin (Holy Cross). Time-21 8-10 sec. Third heat--won by Engle (Yale); second, Harwood (Syracuse); third, Mason. Time--22 sec. Fourth heat--won by Dyer (Stanford); second, Sacks (Penn); third, Gill (Yale). Time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIVE HARVARD TRACKMEN SURVIVE I. C. 4A. TESTS | 6/1/1929 | See Source »

Divorced. Renee Adoree, cinemactress (The Big Parade); by William Sherman Gill, proprietor of a Hollywood tailor shop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Feb. 11, 1929 | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

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