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Word: americans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Orville Poland, speaking on the Dies Committee, said that if the American Student Union is investigated the inquiry will most certainly reach Harvard. "The Dies Committee's real business is to smear the Roosevelt administration, and is acting as the stooge of the National Manufacturers Association and the Chambers of Commerce," he continued...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELIOT, POLAND SPEAK FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES | 11/29/1939 | See Source »

Because the British are occupied in the European War, American interests in the Far East are likely to be snipped off by the advancing Japanese, according to John K. Fairbank, instructor in History...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Japanese Apt to Drive Americans Out Of China While War Diverts British | 11/28/1939 | See Source »

...sequel which leftists are not likely to crib. To declare that big U. S. fortunes are ending in the natural course of things is bad news for those who advocate ending them by "proletarian" revolution. Far less detailed than its predecessor, also far livelier, The Ending of Hereditary American Fortunes goes back a long way to explain its title. Key of Myers' argument is the U. S. tradition against special privileges that are due to accident of birth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Vanishing Assets | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

Post 47 of the American Legion, in a resolution addressed to President Seymour, said that since Browser "been exposed through the Dies Committee as a man definitely linked with Stalin and Russian ideology," he should not be given "the courtesy and protection" of Yale until he has been exonerated of the charges...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Should Forbid Browder At Yale, Legion States | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...them with depressing make-up, and let the cameras grind. In the really good French films, they create an aesthetic standard all their own. This standard, grim and gory, vaguely reminiscent of some wind-swept parts of Wagner, is like a bucketful of cold water when it hits an American audience bottle-fed on the soothing cream of Hollywood...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

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