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Word: localize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...instruction is the lowest rung on the judicial ladder. In the case of Marie Besnard, accused poisoner of 13 relatives and friends, the juge d'instruction was a 26-year-old, newly promoted from clerk, who never visited the scene of the crime, sent out to the local grocery for canning jars to hold the viscera of the 13 alleged victims, and the jars ended so badly mixed up no one was sure which was which. But he kept Marie Besnard in jail for five years in "preventive detention.'' The 28-year-old juge d'instruction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Justice on Trial | 2/14/1955 | See Source »

Last week in Kansas City's U.S. District Court, the Government finished putting on the stand 90 witnesses, including admen, former Star staffers, local advertisers and other publishers, to try to prove that the Star had been "monopolizing interstate trade and commerce in the dissemination of news and advertising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Case Against the Star | 2/14/1955 | See Source »

Memo from the Boss. The Government witnesses agreed that doing business with the Star Co. had big disadvantages. Several businessmen testified that when the Star Co. found their ads in local weeklies or magazines, they were warned by the ad department: "So long as you can get space elsewhere, you don't need it in the Star." One owner of a small clothing store said he was told by the Star that if he continued advertising in Topeka's Capper's Weekly (owned by the late Senator Arthur Capper), his position in the Star would get "worse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Case Against the Star | 2/14/1955 | See Source »

...native of Providence, Bill Robinson graduated from New York University, did so well as the New York World-Telegram local ad manager that the Hearst chain grabbed him, made him assistant general manager. In 1936 the New York Herald Tribune hired him away as ad manager, eventually made him executive vice president and publisher. A year ago, after the death of Steve Hannagan, Robinson left the Trib to boss the publicity agency. He has resigned from Robinson-Hannagan, but the firm will continue to handle Coke's public relations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: New Boss of Coke | 2/14/1955 | See Source »

Arsenic is replacing lace on the Valentine cards sold in local stores this year, according to Square merchants...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Valentines Feature Insults, Not Hearts | 2/14/1955 | See Source »

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