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Word: penning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Diamond's chauffeur, come to take Mrs. Witcher to visit in Acra. The visit was postponed .and all present were arrested, because under a Witcher bed was discovered a terrifying gangland armory, including bullet-proof vests, "pineapple" hand-grenades, tear gas bombs, revolver ammunition, several calibres of "fountain-pen" pistols, dynamite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Rumors of War | 9/8/1930 | See Source »

...Leopold von Hoesch, talked to him like an uncle, sent him packing to Berlin to repeat B'rer Briand's remarks to German Foreign Minister Julius Curtius. White-chinned ex-President Raymond Poincaré, who, like ex-President Coolidge, is temporarily a newspaper columnist, wrote with spluttering pen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Insane Hopes | 8/25/1930 | See Source »

Walter A. Sheaffer, president of W. A. Sheaffer Pen Co.: "Believe it would be a serious mistake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Wage Symposium | 8/11/1930 | See Source »

Doran Out. He has never learned to drive a car. Nor can he use a fountain pen. But he published Aldous Huxley as willingly as he published James Moffatt's translation of the Bible. And in such versatility lay George Henry Doran's prowess as a publisher. His career's milestones have not been many. He was born in Toronto in 1869, began selling books when he was 15. In 1908 he left Fleming H. Revell Co., Manhattan religious publishers, of which he had become a vice president, to form his own house. In 1928 he merged with Doubleday, Page...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Deals & Developments: Aug. 11, 1930 | 8/11/1930 | See Source »

Signor Benito Mussolini is content with even less, partly because Il Duce is the only head of a State able and up-to-date enough to realize that be his pen he can advertise his country abroad and mold public opinion in his favor. He alone both rules and writes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Sheep Dog at Bay | 7/7/1930 | See Source »

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