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Word: max (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Owns One") likes to picture in advertisements of its expensive automobiles. A perfect piece of type casting for the days when Packard catered exclusively to the carriage trade, Alvan Macauley last week stepped up to the board chairmanship. His successor: Vice President and General Manager Max M. Gilman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Type Casting | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...Prohibition criminal era, was on trial in Manhattan last week for the same offense that undid his pupil Al Capone: cheating on his income taxes. Slit-eyed, impassive sat Johnny as 34 of the Government's 75 witnesses told on him. Then one morning his high-powered lawyer, Max D. Steuer, did not appear in court. Johnny Torrio and two of his four co-defendants pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the Government of $86,000 in taxes between 1933 and 1935. The Last of the Big Shots, who once spent seven months in a Waukegan, Ill. jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Waukegan Brewer | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...Among Dr. Cushing's well-known students and protègés: Dr. Walter Edward Dandy of Johns Hopkins; Dr. Gilbert Horrax of Boston; Dr. Leo Max Davidoff of Brooklyn; Dr. Eliott Carr Cutler, of Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston; Dr. William John German of New Haven; Dr. Howard Christian Naffziger of the University of California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: BRAINMAN | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...Hines. Only once did Jimmy Hines have a brokerage account in his own name. Then he gambled in $38,000 worth of Johns-Manville stock, lost $5,458 in twelve days, settled with the brokers for $4,000. He and some friends borrowed $132,559.59 from Lawyer Max Steuer to buy 850 shares of stock in the New York Giants (baseball), on a tip that it would pay $25 a share...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Portrait of a Boss | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

Dragged to Danville to testify, Banker Aldrich spent seven minutes on the stand denying that he knew either Maude Ault or Robert Alt, that he had ever seen Max Orendorff. At the end of the first day of trial, it appeared that no mortal man had ever seen Max Orendorff. Robert Alt and his mother, weeping on his arm, changed their plea to guilty and were sentenced to ten years in prison, fined $3,000 each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Fabulous 'Legger | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

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