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Word: joliet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rabbis so eager to provide a chaplain for the few Jewish convicts at Joliet when you take so little interest in the spiritual instruction of the 400 Jewish undergraduates at the University of Illinois...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Jews Honor Christian | 1/6/1941 | See Source »

...train took him south through Illinois, criss-crossing the meandering route of Democratic Vice-Presidential Candidate Henry Wallace. Joliet, Morris, Ottawa, LaSalle, Peoria. Local politicians climbed aboard, appeared beside him on the rear platform. The crowds that gathered to see & hear numbered in thousands. If they did not rock with enthusiasm, they listened carefully to Willkie's fervent voice. He did not spare himself. His voice began to croak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: While London Burned | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

...gangster in post-Prohibition Chicago who is making a pretty penny out of Kilmount's Breath of Heather Scotch, when he hears of his accession to an English title. His partner is Edward Arnold, a 100 per cent honest lawyer, whom Silky has previously framed and sent to Joliet for seven years. This is the background against which is thrown the concatenation of events leading to Silky's trial, conviction, and execution as the Earl of Galay. Arnold and British-born Edmund Gwenn support Montgomery superably, and amazingly enough there is hardly a woman's face in the entire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/10/1940 | See Source »

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