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Word: tellings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...victim's head, worried authorities reduced the charge against him from murder to manslaughter, wondered whether they had a simple lunatic instead of a killer. Last fortnight Frank Dolezal hanged himself in his cell with a towel. Last week Clevelanders wondered whether another murder or another arrest would tell them that Sheriff O'Donnell had yet to nab the Butcher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Crime | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...tell Hoover," said Winchell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: This is Lepke | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

Still undaunted, Columnist Winchell was on hand at the appointed hour. Another stranger appeared. "Tell Hoover to be at 28th Street on Fifth Avenue between 10:10 and 10:20," said he. Winchell went to a telephone and followed instructions. Then he got into his car and let Stranger No. 2 take the wheel. At 10:15 Stranger No. 2 pulled up at Madison Square and got out. "Just wait here," he said. Winchell waited. A moment later a third stranger arrived, opened the door and got in. He took off his dark glasses and threw them into the street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: This is Lepke | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

...whole British Labor Party sent this message to the whole German people, whose censors throttled it: "War is very near. You must clearly understand that if war comes Britain and France both stand firmly by their pledges to Poland. "Your Government does not tell you the truth. British labor, which is the friend of the German people, will tell you the truth. "There need be no war. Provided that the threat of force is renounced, there can be just and peaceful settlement of all international disputes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: War Is Very Near | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

David A. Smart is a onetime stenographer who in 1937 exulted: "Why didn't somebody tell me about this publishing game before? It's a cinch." Dave Smart had twice hit the jackpot: with Apparel Arts, a men's fashion magazine which began paying off soon after he started it in 1931, and Esquire, which, started in 1933, became a hit overnight. Esquire's Editor Arnold Gingrich packed it full of cheaply bought stories by big-name authors and flashy risque color cartoons, made it the greatest smoking-room magazine of all time. Circulation zoomed until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Scribner's to the Smoking Room | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

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