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Word: lanza (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thousands of radio listeners came the dramatic voice of New York's youthful District Attorney-Nominee Thomas Edmund Dewey. In the subsequent account of the underworld connections of Tammany's Marinelli, Mr. Dewey charged him not only with hobnobbing with jailbirds with such names as "Socks" Lanza and "Scutch"' Indelicate, but with harboring, as his chauffeur, a notorious fugitive from justice named Charles Falci. It was as detailed and exciting a story as any other installment in the gangbusting radio series that had made Lawyer Dewey the saltiest campaigner in recent New York history. But hard-shelled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Humiliation | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

...annual Cutter Lecture on Preventative Medicine will be given by Anthony J. Lanza, M.D. on Friday, April 20, at the Harvard Medical School. His subject will be "Silicosis and Asbestosis." The medical profession, the press, and others interested, are cordially invited to attend at the Amphitheater Building...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lanza Gives Cutter Lecture | 4/18/1934 | See Source »

...Grain's half-hearted grand jury investigation of conditions in the market last year: More than 600 fish retailers were forced to pay $35,000 a Year for "protection," otherwise they were not permitted to buy fish. Wholesalers were assessed $82 per year per employe by Joseph S. ("Socks") Lanza, delegate of the fish dealers union, for "insurance" against property damage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Scandals of New York (Cont'd) | 4/20/1931 | See Source »

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