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Word: samuels (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trial for larceny in Cleveland last week was Clayton Clawson, holdup man famed as "the toughest prisoner ever to be held in Cuyahoga County Jail." Tough Clayton Clawson was conducting his own defense before Judge Samuel Silbert. Suddenly Clayton Clawson whipped out a small bottle of colorless liquid, shouted: "I'm gonna blow everybody to kingdom come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Tough Clawson | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

...World War, its rail was lined with the most distinguished collection of naïve idealists the U. S. had laughed at in many a year. Aboard the Peace Ship were Rosika Schwimmer with a black bag full of papers from the Premiers of Europe, Feminist Inez Milholland, Publisher Samuel S. McClure, Judge B. B. Lindsey, Governor Louis B. Hanna of North Dakota, many another headliner of that era. Also aboard was a husky youngster of 21 who was neither distinguished nor naïve. The name of Emil Hurja was on the Oscar II's passenger list because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Roosevelt, Farley & Co. | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

...Summer (by Samuel Nathaniel Behrman; Theatre Guild, producer). Like George Bernard Shaw, another regular contributor of wit & wisdom to the Theatre Guild, Playwright Behrman is no longer called upon to concoct a full-fledged drama every time he has assembled enough conversation for a three-act play. Therefore an informed playgoer seldom expects to find great vital issues being wrestled around a Behrman drawing room. What he does expect is a series of sage, civilized and exhaustive discussions on Problems of the Day. This he gets in full measure in End of Summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Play in Manhattan: Mar. 2, 1936 | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

...recent election of the Dramatic Club, Sheldon C. Sommers '37 was chosen Treasurer and the following were elected to the executive committee: Samuel L. M. Cole '39, Richard N. Ittleson '37, Paul Killiam '37, and Arthur Szathmary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dramatic Club Elections | 2/28/1936 | See Source »

...exaggeration. Samuel Insull receives $21,000 per year in pensions from his old Chicago operating companies. *Similar discrepancies exist in the prices of old securities and reorganization securities of Baldwin Locomotive and Burns Bros., big Eastern Coal distributor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Insull & Pennies | 2/24/1936 | See Source »

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