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Word: lot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cream of the jest to these taxpayers was that, as is customary, they will receive not only their money back but interest on it at 6%-a lot bigger return than they could have got if they had invested in bonds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXATION: Cream | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

...disciples of Moses' monotheism, know history and are hardly surprised at the symptoms of present society. Nonsurprising, but tragical indeed, is the lot of a perpetual scapegoat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 24, 1939 | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

...against him, last April. Because in the Strecker case, for which this case was delayed, the U. S. Supreme Court ruled that temporary Communism, since discontinued, is not a deportable offense (TIME, April 24). Running the Bridges defense was a lady veteran of the Strecker fight, and of a lot of other celebrated "liberal" cases, notably those of Angelo Herndon, the Scottsboro Boys and John Strachey. She was Carol Weiss King, 44, a short, swart, athletic Manhattan widow with bushy black eyebrows and thick eyeglasses, a specialist in labor and radical defense work, particularly alien deportations. Examiner Landis was stern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IMMIGRATION: On Angel Island | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

Roomers in the tenement at No. 328 Henry Street, on Manhattan's lower East Side, were bothered a lot by Walter Ferguson, 45, an unemployed handy man who lived on the third floor. He had religious fits. He shouted a lot, preached the doctrines of Father Coughlin. The only person who could quiet him was Elizabeth ("Lizzie") Schneider, 55, a midget who lived on the fourth floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Handy Man | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

...road for three more years, went to Kansas City, studied law, was admitted lo the bar. He quit the law because all the lawyers he saw were drunk and a newspaperman told him that if he wrote he would starve to death but, meantime, would always have a lot of fun. He founded a magazine called Plain Talk, which was suppressed for inciting race troubles. So he changed its name to The Pitchfork "because the pitchfork is the poor man's implement; you can fight with it or work with it." When he was ordered never again to publish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: End of Old Pitch | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

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