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Word: maile (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that sentence if he had wanted to. But not to greasy, grinning Capone belongs credit for the freedom he has so far enjoyed, but rather to his adroit, Irish-blooded attorney, Michael Ahern. Born "back of the yards" in Chicago 43 years ago last week, the son of a mail carrier. Michael Ahern was educated by Jesuit priests, learned from them a skill and precision in disputation which has since stood him in good stead. Later he was graduated from Loyola University. In the two decades he has practiced law in Chicago he has become known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Capone At Large | 9/21/1931 | See Source »

Professor Hartman had no extra cortin. But in a few hours he cooked some up from the entrails of 900 Chicago cattle. A police escort sped the hormone with U. P. reporters and photographers from Professor Hartman's laboratory. Mail planes rushed the medicine to Chicago, where more police and U. P. men sped it at 80 m. p. h. to dying Mrs. Nelson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Press Rescue | 9/21/1931 | See Source »

...signal from the cockpit, a seaman on deck threw a lever and the sled shot to the edge of the deck, flinging the seaplane out over the water at 80 m. p. h. The plane rose rapidly, circled the Euro pa in salute, vanished into the west with mail for the U. S. and Canada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Via Catapult | 9/21/1931 | See Source »

...Indianapolis two policemen heard weird noises issuing from a mail box. Deciding there might be a bomb inside, they found a postman, kept a safe distance until he opened the box. Inside was a litter of newborn kittens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 14, 1931 | 9/14/1931 | See Source »

...Kinston, N. C., William Alston's goat in seven days ate the following: an automobile seat, a hollyhock row. a pair of pyjamas, two days' mail, 17 hens' nests, a prayer book, three rows of assorted flowers. On the eighth day William Alston slew his goat, gave it to a Negro family. The family ate the goat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 14, 1931 | 9/14/1931 | See Source »

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