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Word: headedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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> Bald, melon-headed John L. Lotsch, former Brooklyn banker and thriving patent lawyer until sentenced to prison on a bribery conviction of his own, testified that he procured $50,000 in loans for Judge Manton (later repaid) and paid $5.000 more to Bag-Man Fallon. Lotsch always got favorable decisions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Not a Pretty Story | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

Daladier solved his problem in opportunistic fashion by swinging still further Right. Because of the international crisis, Parliament twice granted him temporary power to rule by decree. He appeased the Right by doing away with the 40-hour week-by stages both before and after Munich. There were many small...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: June and September | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

Two years ago Teachers College's Dean William F. Russell said: "Lincoln School celebrates 20 years of service. May it have many score more." But last fall, soon after Dean Russell ended another T. C. experiment, New College (TIME, Nov. 28), Lincoln's teachers and parents began to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Lapsing Lincoln? | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

Last week a fancy new name popped up for a transatlantic stunt hop. A California pilot named Thomas H. Smith called his a "research flight." He took off from Old Orchard Beach, Me. in a light Aeronca powered with a four-cylinder, 65-h.p. engine, started for Ireland with 160...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Level-Headed Kid | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

Arthur Pegler's son Westbrook could tell many another story of his old man, for the elder Pegler is a living example of the oldtime newspaperman. He went to work for the London Daily Telegraph before he was 20 and quit the New York Daily Mirror year before last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Pegler's Pa | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

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