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Word: jans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Saloon League fostered Prohibition. Backed by a few libertarians, the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment was founded to alter Prohibition. Last winter the A. A. P. A. announced that it would expand and grow potent under the leadership of a new chief, Major Henry Hastings Curran of Manhattan (TIME, Jan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: To Cut Out . . . the Cancer | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

...sure enough, dashing through the sleepy streets, Engine No. 9 snorted up to No. 2009 Massachusetts Avenue, a modest little French-style mansion of Indiana limestone, with festive lights. There, just as on another night last January (TIME, Jan. 16), stood a pink-cheeked, slightly rotund little man with a perky mustache and amusing eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Firemen's Favorite | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

...rooms at Windsor Castle. Not until his sister became Queen-Empress did his future really brighten. At present his duty is merely to preside impartially, in the Union of South Africa, over the incessant squabbles of the factions headed by Prime Minister James Barry Munnik Hertzog and famed General Jan Christiaan Smuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Garters | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

Frances St. John Smith, 18, pretty Smith College freshman, disappeared from Northampton, Mass., on Jan. 13. Her father, St. John Smith, Manhattan broker, immediately offered a reward to whosoever would find her. Eastern newspapers featured the story with front-page screamers for ten days, then dropped it. Last week the following advertisement containing a photograph and description of missing Miss Smith appeared in the Springfield, Mass., Republican and other New England newspapers: $10,000 REWARD If found alive $1,000 REWARD If found dead

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 30, 1928 | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

PARIS BOUND-A charming and witty couple who just avoid divorce (TIME, Jan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Best Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 23, 1928 | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

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