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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...month for permitting professional gambling in his Monongahela Club (political headquarters) in Harlem, or that Charles ("Lucky") Luciano, head of the prostitute trust (since jailed), was more than a social acquaintance of Jimmy Hines. He did stay at the same hotel and play golf with Luciano on a junket to Hot Springs, Ark. Another Hot Springs habitue was 'Legger Owney Madden (beer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Portrait of a Boss | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

Last week, accompanied by publicity-wise Daddy Wood, two nurses and 20 faculty members, one-third of Stephens packed its bags and went off on the school's annual junket to see some of the country and a few new boys (cost per student...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Girls Meet Boys | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

This week, before they returned to Stephens from their 4,500-mile, fortnight's junket, half the girls went to Texas for some unfinished business: a date with Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College. The boys of Texas A. & M. were to call for them in Army trucks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Girls Meet Boys | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

French Tour (Tues. 6:05 p. m. NBC-Blue), a microphone junket that in the next three months will do Paris from the hotcha Bal Tabarin to the Sorbonne and rest up in the provinces. First brush: with a Paris taxidriver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Programs Previewed: Feb. 6, 1939 | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

...social occasion. Under the leadership of New York's heavy-humored Representative "Ham" Fish and Missouri's bucolic Representative Dewey Short, they voted ten-to-one that Ham Fish, not Alben Barkley, should head the delegation and pick "a dozen other lucky Congressmen to share the junket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Barkley's 30 Winks | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

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