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Word: rotters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rotter. The Rotter Brothers, Jewish theatre owners and musicomedy producers, once most prosperous, now bankrupt, fled Berlin in January. In the Principality of Liechtenstein last week they were ambushed by six young Germans, apparently Nazis. Alfred Rotter and his wife jumped over a cliff to death to avoid kidnapping. Franz Rotter, handcuffed, sprang from the kidnappers' car, broke his shoulder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Co-ordination | 4/17/1933 | See Source »

...here or a Republican in Philadelphia he is sure of reelection, so he practically has the position until he retires for age. If somebody offered you a thing like that, would you just say 'Thank you' and not offer that person a present? Would you really be such a rotter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: Sales Technique | 4/27/1931 | See Source »

...said anything like that. . . . That sort of thing is entirely foreign to me. . . . No, I don't agree with her at all. ... It was a great shock to me. . .. Only one judge comes from my district and he didn't give me a present and he isn't a rotter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: Sales Technique | 4/27/1931 | See Source »

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