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Word: licensee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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When they finally find each other again, there is no question about it: they are going to get married. All afternoon, working against the city's implacably ticking clocks, they fight their way through the cruel bureaucratic mazes of getting a blood test, a license, a waiver of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 14, 1945 | 5/14/1945 | See Source »

Rite of Spring. In Hillsdale, Mich., a citizen was refused his eighth marriage license in eight years, even after he confided to the county clerk that he had never been divorced, celebrated a private anniversary by getting remarried to his wife every spring.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 9, 1945 | 4/9/1945 | See Source »

Unlike Nevada's mines, which have paid a "bullion tax" on net proceeds since 1864, gambling has never been taxed (except for a license). But this spring legislators wrote a bill calling for a 10% income tax on gambling's gross profits. The proposal stirred up as much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEVADA: Gamblers' Luck | 4/9/1945 | See Source »

LaGuardia, still curfused, still certain that a 12 o'clock curfew disrupted Manhattan's subway and bus systems, and that it would cause speakeasies to flower, made a nationwide radio speech to explain himself. He said that an hour of "tolerance" would make the curfew more easily enforced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Midnight in the Metropolis | 4/2/1945 | See Source »

To New York License Commissioner Paul Moss had gone the victory in his arbitrary closing of the Lesbian play Trio (TIME, March 12). But it may be the last such victory he and his successors ever have. Last week, after a session with representatives of 19 protesting organizations, Mayor LaGuardia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Last Victory? | 3/19/1945 | See Source »

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