Word: l
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tough little link in Frank Gannett's newspaper chain, was crusading against vice and gambling in its tough little town (pop. 31,883). When the News documented its case with pictures of locally sold policy tickets, a grand jury summoned News Editor Douglas V. Clarke and Reporter Charles L. Leonard, and wanted to know where the tickets came from...
Where Stars Walk (by Micheál MacLiammóir; produced by Richard Aldrich & Richard Myers, in association with Brian Doherty) is the Dublin Gate Theater's third Broadway production and first wholly inside job. Written by one of the Gate's two founders and star performers, the play isn't really much good but it is often exceedingly pleasant. Half fantasy and half satire, in its dawdling as well as its dreaming it is altogether Irish...
...Turkey, where Mustapha Kemal led a westernizing crusade. In Italy, Benito Mussolini had marched on Rome but was not yet (quite) a dictator. The only man who called himself that was Gustav von Kahr, Dictator of Bavaria, against whom Erich Ludendorff and Adolf Hitler plotted. In the U.S., John L. Lewis,* who had risen from statistician to president in the United Mine Workers, was getting ready for a trip to Europe. In New York, Franklin D. Roosevelt (shown as a pipe smoker on TIME'S 13th cover) had returned from convalescence to take up a fruitless job as head...
March 3, 1923-Vol. I, No. 1 of TIME. Editors: Briton Hadden, Henry R. Luce; Associates: Manfred Gottfried, Thomas J. C. Martyn, Alan Rinehart, John A. Thomas. Circulation Manager: Roy E. Larsen. Advertising Manager: Robert L. Johnson. Circulation...
...Civilian doctors should be organized as medical minutemen, said Dr. Edward L. Bortz, president of the American Medical "Association. Some cities are already making a start; but there should be countrywide organization under a National Emergency Medical Council, set up as an agency of the National SecurityResources Board...