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Word: lefts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Banion, on Chicago's North Side, who ran a flower shop as a sideline, specialized in floral pieces for gangster funerals, a highly lucrative trade. O'Banion said he hated Wops. One November noonday three men came to his shop, riddled him with bullets and left him sprawling on a pile of ferns. Among the tributes around O'Banion's $10,000 casket was a basket of roses tagged: "From...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Hoodlum | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...only misdeeds the State could prove, this onetime Public Enemy No. 1 will have served seven years and six months. His plans were secret. He was diseased and afraid. There were many men left who remembered his tyranny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Hoodlum | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...talked. Later they saw Prince Bernhard zu Lippe-Biesterfeld, husband of Princess Juliana and a member of the Dutch Army General Staff, dash out of the Palace's single entrance, get into a car and leave. At 1:30 a.m. Dutch Foreign Minister Eelco N. van Kleffens left. Gradually the Palace lights went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEUTRALS: Good Offices | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...Commander Günther Prien's submarine raid. Testator to this probability was First Flying Lieutenant Hermann von Bülow of the German Air Force, who explained in Berlin that the air raid on Scapa Flow, three days after Royal Oak was torpedoed, was a "cleanup job" left to his crowd by the Nazi naval arm. Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Lord's Admissions | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...States the Nazis have given most recent and solemn guarantees. No wonder anxiety is great. No one believes one word Hitler and the Nazi Party say and therefore we must regard that situation as grave. . . . If we are conquered, all will be enslaved and the United States will be left single-handed to guard the rights of man. If we are not destroyed, all these countries will be rescued and restored to life and freedom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Words for War | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

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