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Word: light (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Earl Long also telegraphed WPAdministrator F. C. ("Pink") Harrington in Washington asking for "data that you have obtained in a private way that would help us throw light on the befuddled condition at L. S. U.; also anything that you have found that has any bearing on irregularities involving any official or employe of the State of Louisiana." Two L. S. U. supervisors and its construction superintendent resigned. The latter, George Caldwell, his assistant, and a WPA foreman were promptly arrested, charged with diverting WPA labor and materials to private uses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: One Was a Son-of-a-Gun | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

...first of 13 dissected torsos was discovered in the city's purlieus. Neatly beheaded, arms and legs deftly removed, the grisly remains of seven men and six women suggested the work of a fiend acquainted with the meat-chopping profession. As one killing after another came to light periodically, Cleveland's harried sheriff hired a private detective named Lawrence J. ("Pat") Lyons to work on the case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Cleveland's Butcher | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

...harbored a small garrison of Polish troops which guards a Polish ammunition warehouse. Behind those troops is an incident of 1920, when German Communist dock workers held up a shipment of arms to Poland, then fighting for its life against Bolshevik Russia. It was then that Poland saw the light and began to plan at Gdynia, 13 miles northwest, a new port. Poland knows that an occupation of Danzig would give Germany a stranglehold on Gdynia. To keep Danzig alive (the city always depended on the Polish hinterland for its business) Poland continues to allot almost half her sea cargo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DANZIG: Holiday Spot | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

...topsy-turvy politics of South America no statesman can tell from one day to the next when the wheel of political fortune is going to turn violently against him. It is only practical that he should foster the tradition which provides him a soft spot on which to light in the event of an explosion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILE: Hispanic Custom | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

...Ford Sunday Evening Hour, CBS. Substitute: Ford Summer Hour, on the air since June 11 with light, instead of symphonic, music and, instead of sermons by Ford Spokesman William J. Cameron, chats about River Rouge plant doings by a Rouge reporter (Ken Laub...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Vacationers | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

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