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Word: airings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...really in the offing, his diplomatic flaring might give its makers pause. > Word was that the President would appoint Supreme Court Justice Brandeis' successor before going south. It was understood the new man must be a Westerner. Several names, none of them a standout, were in the air. Then something happened: a journalist friend recollected that extremely able Chairman William Orville Douglas of the SEC, 40, was born in Minnesota, lived in the State of Washington from 1904 to 1922, hence is a Westerner. From his hospital bed in Baltimore, where he was recuperating from an appendectomy and faithfully...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Vigilant Fisherman | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

...When you are entering into an important contract," inquired the French air attache in Washington, "do you provide yourself with a jazz band to attract attention?" Accorded full attention, the Embassy proceeded last week to itemize recent French orders for some $65,000,000 worth of U. S. military planes: 100 Curtiss fighters (added to 100 ordered last year); 200 North American advanced trainers; 115 Glenn Martin bombers; 100 replicas of the new Douglas bomber which crashed four weeks ago and revealed the presence of a French buying mission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Without Jazz | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

MacLeish, who with the adoption of a constitution yesterday resigned as Director of the Workshop and became merely a member of the Faculty committee, has written two plays for the Columbia Broadcasting System's radio theatre, "Fall of the City", and "Air Raid." He has expressed enthusiasm for the possibilities of radio drama but believes that techniques are extremely undeveloped...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty Committee to Sponsor Radio Workshop's Experiments | 2/24/1939 | See Source »

Gurgled in the spring, and smell the air...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 2/23/1939 | See Source »

...different smelling air. He braced his elbows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 2/23/1939 | See Source »

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