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Word: haved (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Law Enforcement. "It is the most serious issue before our people. . . . I have appointed a commission. . . . I am confident it will make a notable contribution." Major Hoover commissions now functioning?6; new Hoover commissions called for in his message?4.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: State of the Union | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

¶ It cost $782,408,753 to carry last year's mails, of which about $560,000,000 went as pay to approximately 274,000 postal employes. For this service the public paid $696,947,577 to the Post Office Department, made up an $85,000,000 deficit indirectly through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Postal Report | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

Window blinds were reeled down, lights were snapped out in the crowded courtroom of a Philadelphia Quarter Sessions Court one day last week. On an improvised cinema screen flashed the images of a detective, a stenographer, a glum young man. The young man's lips moved. A loudspeaker blatted: "This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Confession by Cinema | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

Vainly had the defense objected: "A lawyer can't cross-examine a mechanical robot. The film could have been cut ... the voice faked. We will take this case to the Supreme Court if necessary."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Confession by Cinema | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

Judge Woodrough found the two distillers not guilty. He opined that the agents could enter a house without warrant only if they actually saw the felons at work. Said he: "The entry into the dwelling house and the search of it were unjustifiable and illegal . . . therefore I have ordered the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Warrants Required | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

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