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Word: avowing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...others who could not work when the flow of auto bodies halted. In Washington John Lewis grabbed a long-distance telephone and bawled out Executive Boardman Leo Lamotte, whom Mr. Lewis blamed for the trouble. Boss Lewis was concerned because he had just had C. I. O. avow that it would religiously observe its contracts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Again, Sit Downs | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

...sorely divided officers had spent some of the money for Elgin watches to give Messrs. Lewis, Hillman. Murray and C. I. O. Headquarters Director John Brophy as "symbols of unity.'' U. A. W. President Homer Martin, who heartily dislikes all four, had to avow the utmost esteem for them (and they for him). He also exuded esteem for his fellow officers, who half hoped that Mr. Martin would fulfill his recent threats to resign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: C.I.O. (CIO) | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

...French political dirt because he was Chairman of the Chamber's Stavisky Committee. Accusingly last week Old Guernut shouted across the Chamber at Premier Pierre Laval: "The plotting of the Fascist Leagues is undeniable! Their object is to substitute for the Republic a Fascist regime. They themselves avow it and Colonel François de La Rocque announces as imminent a seizure of power by his Croix de Feu. Not one of the men who have been brought before the highest court of the land, during the last 50 years, for treason ever menaced the country so seriously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Pour la Patrie | 12/16/1935 | See Source »

...stand ready to avow or disavow promptly and explicitly any precise or definite opinion which I may be charged with having declared of any Gentleman. More than this cannot fitly be expected from me. ... I trust, on more reflection, you will see the matter in the same light with me. If not. I can only regret the circumstances; and must abide by the consequences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 22, 1935 | 7/22/1935 | See Source »

...what we do not want to do and coercion cannot make us. . . . No one with the slightest sense of history would try to fit such people into a regimented scheme, would try to think for them instead of getting them to think for themselves. . . . In this respect I unhesitatingly avow myself a thorough conservative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Undersecretary No. 3 | 5/7/1934 | See Source »

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