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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When this dark young guy gave her the long look in a New York subway car, something happened to blonde, empty-headed Pearl Lusk. Here was Mr. Excitement in person-sharp, smiling, hefty; a lonesome Latin with a George Raft face, and a slow burn in his eye. The minute 19-year-old Pearl saw him, she began to feel pleasantly jittery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Camera Eye | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

...could run the dame in and collect a big bonus. By the time he dropped Pearl at her pink-curtained, $5-a-week room on Manhattan's grimy West Side, La Rue had asked how she would like to take the picture. Jobless, not-too-bright Pearl Lusk was thrilled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Camera Eye | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

...piston on her campaign and announced that one of her goals was to "have every union member a capitalist." She had the backing of Ham Fish, for what it was worth. Republican St. George will be one of two new women in the House.* The other: Democrat Georgia Lusk, first woman ever to be elected to Congress from New Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: New Faces in the House | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

...Fuller Details ... In Lusk, Wyo., Mrs. Russell Bradley read in the local paper that her barn, just over a hill from her house, had burned down, went outside to investigate, found that it had, sure enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 25, 1944 | 12/25/1944 | See Source »

...possession of revolutionary literature is to be a crime in this country, almost every school and library is guilty. The Declaration of Independence, the speeches of Jefferson and Lincoln are fuel for another book-burning. We are back in the days of Palmer Red Raids and the Lusk Committee. The Minneapolis case is more than a test of the Smith act: it is a test of our democracy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Justice in Minnesota | 11/24/1941 | See Source »

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