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Word: adamses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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The broad bosom of the Pacific Ocean enfolded Franklin Roosevelt last weekend. To its gusts he could throw the heavy cares of the Presidency, to its rollers the carking complications of politics. Behind for a while lay the names of Barkley, Thomas, Adams, McCarran, McAdoo. Ahead lay marlin, sailfish, tuna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Wahoos for McAdoos | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

¶ Senator Alva Adams of Colorado shifting from one foot to the other during the Roosevelt speech at Pueblo (Mr. Adams' home town), waiting, while 15,000 people listened, to see what the President would say to help (or hinder) his renomination. Franklin Roosevelt spoke for ten minutes, praised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Wahoos for McAdoos | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

(Everywhere political wiseacres interpreted Franklin Roosevelt's failure to crack down on "naughty" Senators Adams and McCarran-right after the triumph of "naughty" Senator Van Nuys in Indiana [see p. 11]-as "the end of the Roosevelt Party Purge.")

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Wahoos for McAdoos | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

¶ Husky, 40-year-old Reginald A. Whitcombe, youngest of Britain's three famed Whitcombe brothers who during the past 15 years have won almost every major golfing prize in the Empire: the British Open golf championship; defeating a predominantly British field; with a 72-hole score of 295...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, Jul. 18, 1938 | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

¶Site of the hot-dog luncheon was a lately acquired hilltop on Franklin Roosevelt's own land, adjacent to his mother's. Here, he revealed, he is going to have something he has long wanted: his "dream house." To newshawks he showed its shape, outlined in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: In Motion | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

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