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Word: waukegan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...About Town (Paramount) was before the cameras when its star, Jack Benny, was convicted of cheating the U. S. Government of duty on trinkets for his wife. Paramount's chin-up reply to this embarrassing publicity was to hold a world premiere of the film in Waukegan, Ill., where Comedian Benny was born Benjamin Kubelsky 45 years ago. The film, another Jack Benny performance of his standard screen personality, a garrulous, cigar-chewing gull ready to be talked into anything once, is almost an exculpation in itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 10, 1939 | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

...speedboat bore down on the distressed craft, the conning tower was roped and the sub towed ashore. This week Inventor Connett plans a submerged trip from Chicago to Michigan City or Waukegan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Saved | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

...Ridge, N. J. John A. N. Fea Virginia Anderson, Glen Ridge, N. J. John C. Finegan Virginia Gilbert, Gloucester Paul J. Flamand Dorothy Roche, Sharon, Pa. Robert F. Forker Betty Snowden, Pittsburgh Charles N. Foster Winifred Hemenway, Leominster Francis L. Foster Barbara Burton, Providence Irving M. Fried Elizabeth Schwartz, Waukegan, Ill. Nathan H. Garrick Jr. Nancy McLeod, Newton Thomas F. Garvey Mary Lee, Boston Charles S. Glesson Christine Stillman, Wareham George S. Goldstein Frances Sanders, Hartford, Conn. Eli Goldston Barbara Cohen, Brookline Richard W. Greenebaum Bernadetta Handrahan, Brockton Roger C. Griffin Jr. Eleanor Mastin, Needham Ralph W. Grover Carol Spahr...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 160 Will Bring Girls to '42 Jubilee Tonight | 5/26/1939 | See Source »

...Pastor of that church, she refers to, is one of the leaders in the League of Decency organized to send this town to the "cleaners" for fair. No sir, her fears are groundless. Her folks will be just as safe here as they would be in Oshkosh, Wis., Waukegan, Ill.,* or Erie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 17, 1939 | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...powered lawyer, Max D. Steuer, did not appear in court. Johnny Torrio and two of his four co-defendants pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the Government of $86,000 in taxes between 1933 and 1935. The Last of the Big Shots, who once spent seven months in a Waukegan, Ill. jail for running a brewery, looked forward to a much longer sentence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Waukegan Brewer | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

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