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Word: webbe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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Armstrong Cork's Henning Webb Prentis Jr. took U. S. relief policy to pieces. He said that 1) no one really knows how many unemployed there are, 2) many persons now on relief shouldn't be, 3) unemployment insurance should not be paid while a worker looks around for "suitable employment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONVENTION: Voice of Business | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

...advent of Chick Webb and Gene Krupa has revolutionized the style of every rhythm section in the country, so that today even a mediocre band like Jan Savitt's can cut any of the old Armstrong or Henderson groups as for as pure rhythm is concerned. Compare Fletcher's Sugarfoot Stomp with Savitt's and see what I mean...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: SWING | 5/10/1940 | See Source »

...LONDON--Webb Miller, famous United Press war reporter, was found dead today beside a railroad track in south west London...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Over the Wire | 5/9/1940 | See Source »

...buskin for The Man Who Came to Dinner? (TIME, Feb. 19.) Here in Chicago Clifton Webb pulled on the sock, a happier choice. Perhaps the late Town Crier should have thrice refused the part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 11, 1940 | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

...WEBB": I'm the second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Woollcott, Woolley & Webb | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

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