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Word: recoverable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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This dramatic curtain was Adolf Hitler's pleasure, communicated by wireless. There was no apparent reason for it. Assuming that the Spee was in no condition to engage even the light British cruisers, Hitler had nothing to lose by allowing her to be interned-unless he expects to lose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Pocket into Pocket | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

The reason for this is that in September 1935 Standard failed to finance repayment of a $24,650,000 note issue, landed in a reorganization proceeding in a Delaware Federal District Court. Charges (among others) by Senator Robert Wagner's Law Partner Simon H. Rifkind that: a stock deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Personnel: Mr. Jones's Proteges | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

In an automobile collision at Azusa, Calif., Thomas Leo McCarey, cinema director (The Awful Truth, Ruggles of Red Gap), and Gene Fowler (born Eugene Devlan), journalist, author (The Great Mouthpiece, Timber Line, Illusion in Java), were burned by gasoline flames. Director McCarey had a fractured skull, Writer Fowler injuries to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 11, 1939 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Daggett must return to his home in New Orleans in order to recover completely from an illness which forced him to resign from the law school.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stillman Bridegroom-to-Be Has More Nuptial Trouble | 12/8/1939 | See Source »

Loans. In 1931 a Manhattan lawyer decided that his shares of American Tobacco Co. stock would be worth more if the company officers paid back bonuses they arranged for themselves and got no similar ones in the future. He slapped on two stockholders' suits in which the corporation, although...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Disbarred | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

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