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Word: adamses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hot-headed Patrick ("Liberty or Death") Henry was Virginia's original ''unreconstructed rebel," a Scottish King-hater who swung a verbal sledge on the propertied classes at every opportunity. He came home from the Revolution and attacked the Constitution as.destructive of States' rights. He turned down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VIRGINIA: Two Angry Men | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

Ekins' record stood unchallenged till last month, when a wealthy widow named Clara Adams, famed in airline circles as an inveterate first-nighter, saw her chance. When Pan American's Dixie Clipper soared away from Port Washington, L. I. on its first transatlantic passenger flight, Mrs. Adams took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Round Trip | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

Sixteen days, 19 hours, 4 minutes after leaving New York, Widow Adams was back again. She had flown all the way. Total mileage: 25,000. Cost: $2,500. Chortled she: "That's ten cents a mile. Can you travel cheaper than that?"

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Round Trip | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

First, two Democrats, Idaho's Clark and Colorado's Adams, accused the Senate conferees of not trying hard enough to defend the Senate's stand against the President's dollar power. Senator Townsend opened for the Republicans and then Senator Vandenberg asked all factions, who were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Money at Midnight | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

All that was publicly known of President Smith's movements for seven days was that Jack Adams drove Dr. and Mrs. Smith to the Chisca Hotel in Memphis on June 25, then returned to BatonRouge where he was arrested as a material witness.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: Jimmy the Stooge | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

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