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Word: weekes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...After $8,000,000 was finally appropriated, in 1899. Governor Theodore Roosevelt and other leading New Yorkers invited Dockman Ambrose to a testimonial dinner. He died a week later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: Ambrose | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...weighing of different deaths, in a whisper passed with a plate at mess, along a file at exercise, in a package slipped under the table in the visitors' room, a stolen knife, a gun under the grey clothes?so prison breaks begin, nobody knows just how. One morning last week at Auburn. N. Y., an appointed moment came. Father Donald Cleary, the prison's young chaplain, found a strange party in one of the corridors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Again, Auburn | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...tingling Celtic sense of the dramatic has New York's Mayor James John Walker. One midnight last week, he made the unprecedented announcement that he would act as a special catastrophe investigator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Pathetique | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...Last week Chairman Owen D. Young of Radio Corp. of America appeared as a witness before the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee. In one word he approved a bill by Senator Couzens to create a Federal Communications Commission comparable to the Interstate Commerce Commission; in many words he pleaded for two great monopolies in the communications field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Monopolies Wanted | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...Last week gridironing was again ushered in with a crash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Gridironing | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

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