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Word: mikes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...denied that he had ever been connected with Cambridge gambling and objected to an accusation by Mike Sullivan that he is relying on "bar-fly" votes for his nomination, Mike had stated that Flanagan and his workers ran craps parlors and had even offered to point out where they were located...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bill Flanagan Wants "Clean" Campaign In Fight With Sullivan for City Council | 10/10/1939 | See Source »

When he heard that Mike Sullivan had attacked the Lampoon Building with campaign posters last Saturday night, he threatened to hang his posters on the CRIMSON building...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bill Flanagan Wants "Clean" Campaign In Fight With Sullivan for City Council | 10/10/1939 | See Source »

First treatise on the U. S. art of crooning, Henderson and Palmer's book will cause no Flagstads to sprout. But its canny appraisal of the ins & outs of popular song-singing may well make it the aspiring mike-moaner's Bible. Do you want to make big money singing songs for the U. S. radio and cinema public? Then stay away from highbrow vocal teachers, never mind your high C ("Many girls have made fortunes without ever coming within an octave of it"). Concentrate on naturalness and intimacy. Learn how to act at auditions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: How to Croon | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

Councilman Mike (Mickey the Dude) Sullivan yesterday personally investigated a syndicate which was counterfeiting Social Security cards, he announced last night after a meeting of the Cambridge City Council...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mickey Plays Policeman | 9/27/1939 | See Source »

Guilty Pastor. One night last month dull, unbeautiful Wanda Dworecki, 18, was strangled and beaten to death near a Camden, N. J., cemetery. Police noted that her seamy, brooding father, the Rev. Walter ("Iron Mike") Dworecki (of the First Polish Baptist Church) had insured her for $2,695, that he had once been charged with lucrative arson by a fire insurance company. Last week a onetime boarder in the Dworecki home, 21-year-old Peter Schewchuk, confessed that at Pastor Dworecki's behest he killed Wanda while her parent was out preaching, got 50? for the job from Father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Crime | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

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