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Word: townes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Morning After. Two Klansmen drove the car and its three occupants to the outskirts of the town of Manchester, carefully wiped the steering wheel clean of fingerprints and vanished. Minutes later, discovered by a Manchester cop, the newsmen landed in the Manchester jail charged with drunkenness. Their city editor, Joe Hall, bailed them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGIA: Nightmare on Pine Mountain | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

...Blake H. Rand, 84, was elected to his 61st term as town clerk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Mar. 22, 1948 | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

From the Dead. The sons of an Irish miner, Patrick and William Hurley were born in the bedraggled mining town of Lehigh, Okla., then part of the Choctaw nation. Pat had got himself a college education, launched a career that made him a millionaire, Secretary of War under Herbert Hoover, roving ambassador extraordinary for Franklin Roosevelt. Bill, two years younger, left home in 1903 at 18. In 1911, some papers bearing Bill's name were found in the raincoat of a man killed near Mexico City. They decided Bill was dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW MEXICO: I Am Nothing | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

Dean Bender was out of town and not available for comment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HYD Praises Council Action | 3/17/1948 | See Source »

...entry with its grin. . . . Such are the dungeons above which rise the proud castles of the tyrants, and from them is to be seen the curling savoury smoke of their banquets." And when the Chief Ranger has conquered the peoples along the Marina, a dirge is heard in the town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: From Steel to Faith | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

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