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Word: americans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your sister publication, LIFE (Sept. 25) reports that 83% of the American people want the Allies to win the war, while 1% want a German victory. I belong with that 1% so please let me have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 23, 1939 | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...hell am I to say all this? Well, I'll tell you. I'm an American of German origin. Like Hitler I'm a poet, and no editor pays any attention to my manuscripts. But I'm German enough to keep at it until I've had my say and then I'll quit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 23, 1939 | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...merchant marine is a major and unnecessary tragedy. After earnest counsel with Rear Admiral Emory Scott Land of the Maritime Commission, he presented to the Senate, with his peculiar, Biblical eloquence, the Admiral's conclusions. (Meantime his onetime colleague, cadaverous William Gibbs McAdoo, now head of the American President Line, used his prerogative as an ex-Senator to lobby slickly on the Senate floor for Pacific Coast shipping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Brass Tacks | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...espionage, treason, counterfeiting, slugging, murder, double-dealing, graft, wrecking, sabotage, forgery, as well as considerable mental and political confusion. Beaming over recent Russian successes in Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania and Poland, Communists were in no mood to talk about the revelations of Congressman Martin Dies's Committee investigating un-American activities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: No Dies | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

Because of the varied nationalities and languages of his students, he can not give group courses in English. Cloud had to adopt the system of giving individual instruction to each foreigner. Coupled with a 100 per cent increase in American students who have been reported for faulty English this year, this new influx of foreigners into Holyoko 18 has produced great activity for the Committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Use of English Committee Flooded by Foreigners With Language Problems | 10/21/1939 | See Source »

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