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Carved out of black diorite, the statue shows Gudea, an ancient ruler in Southern Babylonia, seated on a stool, clasping his hands over his breast...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Semitic Museum Purchases Important Gudean Statue | 11/20/1937 | See Source »

...from Fallen, Lawyer Liebowitz has won his jury verdicts outright. The records disclose only one accusation of tampering with justice. In 1932 a county judge in Brooklyn dismissed an indictment based on unsupported testimony of a confessed prostitute that Liebowitz had coached her what to testify against the police stool pigeon, Chile-Acuna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Scottsboro Hero | 8/2/1937 | See Source »

Activities included many a beer, dancing, attempted petty larceny of a radio and a bar stool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Joyriding Jury | 5/3/1937 | See Source »

...minor prisoners sentenced to jail instead of Death seemed to be mildly picturesque stool pigeons and one, Comrade Vladimir Volfridovich Arnold, had been on two occasions a private in the U. S. Army, so he said. "I was born illegitimately and remain illegitimate and have acted like an illegitimate," cried Arnold in court, "but it is not my fault but the fault of Tsarist society, which, unlike the Bolsheviki, who do not recognize illegitimacy, never gave an illegitimate a chance of becoming a decent citizen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Red Square Deal | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

...interested in seeing him captured. When Pete found favor in the cold blue eyes of Thelma, a restaurant hostess, new worries beset him: Thelma loved to manage people, and thought she knew how to get him out of his mess. She tried to do so primarily by confiding in stool pigeons. Pete learned that her best friend was an ex-street-walker with whom he had once lived, and jealousy gave him the worst headache...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: One-Sided World | 9/7/1936 | See Source »

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