Word: kids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could not promise thatadvertising -any more than the consumer industries it chiefly serves-would not suffer in the defense program. ("I wouldn't try to kid professionals.") But he relied on his listeners to evolve some new uses for their "brilliant technics" that would keep them busy in war as in peace...
...YORK--Abe "Kid Twist" Reles, 37, who rose to the vice-presidency in Brooklyn's Murder, Inc., through hard work and viciousness, bungled an attempt to escape police guards today and plunged from the sixth story of a Coney Island Hotel to a death as sudden as any he had inflicted on his known 11 victims...
...fought his first professional fight-on the preliminary card at Madison Square Garden the night Fritzie Zivic won the welterweight title from Negro Henry Armstrong. Hammering Henry was Ray's ring hero. When he saw Zivic pound his hero's face into a tomato-red pulp, the kid sobbed: "Some day I'm gonna grow big enough to get even with him for what he did to Hank...
...secretary Frances M. ("Robbie") Robinson. The President vetoed a bill to validate old payments to the three for excess traveling expenses in 1933-34. Unless the Senate overrides the veto the General owes the Government $1,868.61, the Major $3,335, Robbie, $57.19 ∙∙ Bird-wise Quiz Kid Gerard Darrow wept remorsefully as he taxied to an Audubon Society meeting in Chicago, where he knew he would meet Columnist John Kieran, Information Pleaser. Nine-year-old Gerard, who wrote a scathing review of Kieran's Nature Notes (TIME, April 14), took it all back, said he really thought...
...Kid Pro Quo. At an East St. Louis school while members of the Parent-Teacher Association discussed "Children in a Changing World" some children stole the adults' lunch and locked them in the building...