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Word: return (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...towering loft buildings on West 35th Street (called "Chinatown" from the days when "coolie wages" were paid there by the makers of low-priced dresses), 25,000 union dressmakers listened one day as their leaders issued a warning to the remaining unorganized employers: the union would not tolerate the return of gangsters like the late Louis ("Lepke") Buchalter and Jacob ("Gurrah") Shapiro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Funeral for Willie | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

...inmates. An old Hausfrau with a shawl over her head stared defiantly back. Most passengers just waited in uneasy silence alongside their battered suitcases. These people were not running away. On their way to see relatives in the West, or to transact long-delayed business, they all expected to return...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Journey to the West | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

Shortly after Eisler's speaking appearance here February 21, officials of the John Reed Club invited the German Communist to pay a return visit to Harvard and tentatively scheduled the date for sometime this week. Such a return engagement by Eisler would probably have balanced the Club's books...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JRC Planned Eisler Address This Week | 5/20/1949 | See Source »

Assistant Dean Norman Harrower, Jr. is leaving to take a job in Oklahoma City, while Assistant Dean Robert W. Sides '38 will return to his teaching position at Phillips Andover Academy. Sides has been on a two year leave of absence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Revisions Due in Dean Personnel; Houses May Get Own Dean System | 5/19/1949 | See Source »

Wilson said 294 living members of the old Sphinx Club would object to a new club using the name "Sphinx" because these alumni use the Phoenix as their headquarters when they return to College. Phoenix is objecting to the use of "part of its name...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Phoenix Club May Question Sphinx Name | 5/18/1949 | See Source »

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