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Word: licensee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Veteran Tennist Jean Borotra, now Vichy's Sportführer, forbade "Hello, ma, I'm glad I won," and all other remarks into radio microphones by sports winners. His reason: they hurt the dignity of sport. . .Lumbering onetime Fisticuffer Primo Carnera, who tried cinemacting for a while, has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Sep. 8, 1941 | 9/8/1941 | See Source »

Died. Noel Charles Scaffa, 53, private detective; of heart disease; in Philadelphia. His specialty was the recovery of stolen jewels after the police had given up. Some of his recoveries: $600,000 of Mrs. James P. Donahue's jewels in 1925, $100,000 of Joshua S. Cosden's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 8, 1941 | 9/8/1941 | See Source »

She smeared the paste on her face every three hours for several months. After a while the tumor disappeared. Although he was surprised at the results, Dr. Stammer never published any articles on the strange case, never claimed that he had a cancer cure. But the story got around to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mysterious Salve | 9/1/1941 | See Source »

The Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court gave him back his license again a month before his year was up. But last week the Regents filed notice of intention to appeal to a higher court. Dr. Stammer's salve, said the Regents' consulting scientists, was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mysterious Salve | 9/1/1941 | See Source »

The Atherton report produced only two concrete results: dismissal of 13 policemen who were embarrassingly rich and passage of a California law requiring bail-bond firms to be licensed by the State Insurance Department. Brassy Pete McDonough who well knew that the law was directed against him, tried three times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CREDIT: The Old Lady Moves On | 8/18/1941 | See Source »

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