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Word: squashers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1937-1937
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...since retired to private practice; the Governor doubted whether his name was big enough to head the investigation. Finally, however, the Governor was convinced, and athletic, 33-year-old Lawyer Dewey, whose favorite indoor sport is squash racquets, found himself in a posi-tion to become the biggest racket-squasher in the U. S. Thomas Dewey's handsome, foxy face has grown familiar to New Yorkers, but when it appeared in the newspapers in June 1935 few would have recognized it without a caption. An Owosso, Mich, boy whose grandfather was second cousin to the Admiral, he had grown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Fight Against Fear | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

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