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Word: whips (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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This year, just a whip's crack from Westbury's famed old Meadow Brook Club, another hardy sport will bloom in September. On the site of the barren Roosevelt Raceway, into which four years ago a group of Eastern sportsmen sank $1,000,000 with the hope of bringing auto racing back to the East, another group of Eastern sportsmen has just sunk $100,000 to revive harness racing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Day & Night | 7/22/1940 | See Source »

...below that figure." Thus last week in Chicago did thin, baldish Dr. Walter H. Silge address the members of the German-American National Alliance. Although the doctor was not on the air, his remarks were typical of the propaganda that the G. A. N.A. broadcasts daily over Station WHIP in Hammond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Alien Corn | 7/22/1940 | See Source »

...Americanism." It urges all German-Americans to get together to protect their race against the "internationalists." G. A. N. A. also denounces in Goebbelsey phrases Great Britain and its U. S. sympathizers "from the White House down." Excerpt translated from a bit of German poesy recently aired over WHIP...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Alien Corn | 7/22/1940 | See Source »

Last week, five days after officially taking office as A. F. of M. president, Jimmie Petrillo was laying about him with Chicago vigor. In an attempt to bring two radio stations to heel, he cracked the whip over the three major networks. The stations were St. Paul's KSTP (NBC affiliate), Richmond's WRVA (CBS). Each was embroiled in a local musicians' strike, because it declined to pay a minimum yearly sum, or guarantee a minimum number of jobs, to local musicians, whether needed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Petrillo Strikes | 7/15/1940 | See Source »

...HANGMAN'S WHIP-Mignon G. Eberhart-Doubleday Doran ($2). Carefully plotted around the Abbott family-Aunt Ludmilla, who is being arsenicked; Cousin Search (a girl), and Diana. Principal crime: the hanging of a mean woman who won't divorce the man Search wants to marry. Motive: money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murders in May | 6/3/1940 | See Source »

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