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Word: workmen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shepherded by two officious French detectives, a crew of workmen invaded an ugly, yellow plaster suburban villa not far from Napoleon's Chateau at Malmaison last week and started digging under the front porch. Within 18 inches they uncovered first a white handbag, then the body of a young girl, fully dressed, doubled up like a jackknife. She had been strangled. With their chests out, officers of the prefecture of police presently announced that they had solved the mystery of the disappearance of U. S. Dancer Jean De Koven, had arrested the most heinous mass murderer since France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: M. Landru's Successor | 12/20/1937 | See Source »

...thereupon pitched in and helped elect as President its guest of honor at the founding banquet in Cincinnati-William McKinley. Through the subsequent decades N. A. M. worked for the Parcel Post Act, the Federal Reserve Act, the Food & Drug Act, Workmen's Compensation legislation and the Panama Canal. It has always stood for a bigger & better merchant marine, and probably its most notable achievement was in promotion of foreign trade in the days before the Bureau of Foreign & Domestic Commerce. At one time it maintained its own commercial attaches in important foreign business centres, and its voluminous files...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Coalition Congress | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

...speakers with free speeches, has made four cinema shorts including one on standards of living. It teaches businessmen how to create local goodwill by opening their plants to public inspection tours. And N.A.M.'s were the sanguine posters that dotted the highways early last year, showing nattily dressed workmen and their immaculate families joyriding and picnicking in the "American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Coalition Congress | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

Deadly gas fumes enveloped the Cambridge Trust Co. at five o'clock yesterday, as frenzied workmen buzzed around a gaping cavity in Dunster Street. Onsmellers cried "foul play", while soda jerkers from Huyler's rushed off for gas masks, fearing a German air raid...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COURAGEOUS GAS CO. WORKMAN SAVES BANK FROM GAS FUMES | 12/10/1937 | See Source »

...tsar of the motion picture industry is Will H. Hays. Potentially more powerful than Tsar Hays is a man named George E. Browne. His terrific title: President of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes of the American Federation of Labor. In Hollywood's studios 12,000 workmen are members of unions that have sworn allegiance to I.A.T.S.E.; in the projection booths of the nation's theatres, I.A.T.S.E. rules the roost. Should Tsar Browne and his lieutenant, William Bioff, call their men out on strike, practically the entire business of making and showing motion pictures could be brought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: I.A.T.S.E. | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

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