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Word: killinger (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every week since January 1936 Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Co. has been advertising Palmolive shaving creams with a Wednesday night coast-to-coast radio melodrama called "Gang-busters." Produced by smart young Benton & Bowles advertising agency, which claims 20,000,000 listeners for the program, "Gangbusters" dramatizes actual criminal careers. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Durkin v. Drama | 8/30/1937 | See Source »

Last week dapper little Martin J. ("'Marty") Durkin, known in his gunning heyday as "The Sheik" and now in his twelfth year of a 35-year term in Joliet (Ill.) Penitentiary for killing a Federal agent in Chicago in 1925, was announced as the principal character in the "Gangbusters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Durkin v. Drama | 8/30/1937 | See Source »

" 'We live in a new world,' he said. 'St. Bernards are killing little girls. Books, or what pass for books, are being photographed on microfilm. There is a cemetery I want to see,' he continued, 'a grove where ancient trees shelter the graves and throw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Tilley's Farewell | 8/16/1937 | See Source »

"The first thing that Ivan Petrovich remembered, the first thing in all his life, was the warm sleek side of a sow, the fat rich smell of her, and the squeaks of the little piglet he'd pushed away to make room for him, and the huge woman that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Unofficial Russian Novelist | 8/16/1937 | See Source »

Two nights later Senator Barkley, Speaker Bankhead and Leader Sam Rayburn of the House waited on the President to hear his views at first hand. Vice President Garner who not only favored swift adjournment but was in the doghouse for his part in killing the Court Bill (TIME, Aug. 2...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Tired Mule | 8/9/1937 | See Source »

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