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Word: licensee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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At Brussels two gendarmes lolled last week near a corner of the famed Avenue de Louise, perhaps the most impeccable residential street in Europe. From the leafy Bois de la Cambre a motorcycle sped into the quiet Avenue, its exhaust rat-tatting raucously. The gendarmes' whistles screamed. . . . "Your papers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: C'est Interditr | 8/16/1926 | See Source »

For two months this city of 40,000 has paid neither its policemen nor its firemen. Last week the local council decided to close one of the two fire stations. Public spirited citizens, who realize that most of the business section is of old, highly inflammable construction deemed good enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Municipal Beggary | 8/9/1926 | See Source »

In Miami, Fla., a righteous, Chautauqua-looking gentleman recently enjoyed a vacation under the cocoanut trees-his first long rest in 30 years. Automobilists who had Nebraska license plates (25,000 of them, he said) came to him, urged him to come home and run for the governorship. Charles Wayland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Candidate Bryan | 8/2/1926 | See Source »

Publisher Don Mellett of the Canton Daily News fought Canton vice and police corruption fearlessly, openly. He was shot dead after midnight in his own backyard by two patient, coldblooded, doubtless well paid slaves to crime, who aimed their rifles from behind a rosebush and made their getaway in a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Stench | 8/2/1926 | See Source »

¶ Passed the Dill Radio Bill, putting control in hands of a commission of five, thereby relieving Secretary of Commerce Hoover of one of the many regulatory problems which have, since 1920, fallen his way. Radio commissioners' salary will be $10,000. The theory of the bill is expressed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Legislative Week: Jul. 12, 1926 | 7/12/1926 | See Source »

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