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Word: snitch (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than many a woman with one, Career Diplomat Barry very undiplomatically marries her. But Brenda is pledged to an exclusive spy ring, continues to be tapped by them even when she turns a cold but lovely shoulder. When her spy fiends (who all resemble Nazis) request her to snitch state secrets through her husband, Brenda makes a clean breast of things to Barry. Off he strides to tell the State Department about it and resign, then sets out with Brenda to track down her erstwhile employers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 2, 1939 | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

Burns's good behavior may entail testifying against Rival Comedian Jack Benny this month. Likeliest winner in any of the actions is Rosa, the Lauer maid, since standard U. S. pay to tattletales who snitch on smugglers is a quarter of the fines collected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 13, 1939 | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

...Temple. They had met before 8 p. m. They did not adjourn until 5:25 next morning. Their business was indeed important: Harry Bridges, the lean little Australian-born leader of San Francisco's 4,000 International Longshoremen-the John L. Lewis of the West-was trying to snitch the San Francisco Labor Council clean away from the A. F. of L. Under William Green's orders the Central Labor Councils of Seattle and Portland had expelled the International Longshoremen. A similar order was expected by wire at this San Francisco Council meeting,* and Harry Bridges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Messrs. B. | 6/14/1937 | See Source »

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