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Word: halled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last January, when Frank Murphy was appointed No. i law enforcement officer of the U. S., Tom Dewey was already better known as New York County's Republican prosecutor of crooked Democrats. Tom Dewey convicted Tammany Hall's notorious Jimmy Hines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: St. Francis | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...puzzled Town Hall clubsters, meeting to discuss "The Business Man and the Arts," Chairman Wendell Willkie, president of Commonwealth & Southern Corp., with great unction read a silly telegram from a serious man: ". . . Please extend to all of the [Pulitzer Prize] winners my hearty congratulations . . . Franklin D. Roosevelt." Explanation: The club originally planned to honor the Pulitzer winners, requested a Presidential message, changed its mind without notifying the White House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 5, 1939 | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...present time the team has very limited time for practice in the basement of Memorial Hall. It is hoped that if Riflery is recognized as a minor sport, the H. A. A. will arrange with the Department of Naval Science for more extensive practice time and better equipment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RECOGNITION OF RIFLERY AS MINOR SPORT ADVOCATED | 6/2/1939 | See Source »

Exactly 12 miles south of Memorial Hall is located one of the University's busiest and most scientific units, the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory, which has recently prepared a large public exhibition showing its progress in the last five years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Half-Century-Old Laboratory Shows Its Equipment and Weather Records | 5/31/1939 | See Source »

...trumpets sounded a change as 55 P. E. N. delegates from 29 countries forgathered at the New York World's Fair last fortnight to hold their three-day World Congress of Writers. Quietly and peaceably the writers filed into the egg-shaped, modernistic Hall of Music. But once inside, they threw down their pens with a bang heard in Berlin, Rome and Burgos, declared war to the last drop of ink on Dictators Hitler, Mussolini and Franco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Men of Good Will | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

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