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Word: backed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many a reputable Negro leader distrusts The Man Bilbo, who was once accused of muzzling Negro pickers in his pecan grove. He tickles the poor-white vote with his back-to-Africa talk, but he appeals to many a poor black as well. Last week he flourished a letter from Harlem: ". . . I, Mack Royal . . . seartnley will go at the word-I and my whole famley. . . . Sir, please inrole my name; please do this with fail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Mr. Bilbo's Afflatus | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

After Indianapolis, Charles Lindbergh flew out of public sight. He went back east to meet Anne Morrow Lindbergh and their two little Lindberghs, who arrived from perilous Europe to stay awhile with Grandmother Elizabeth Morrow at Englewood, N. J. But Father Lindbergh could not tarry long. He had 25 other visits to make before he could turn out a report for his admiring superior, Major General Henry H. Arnold. Expert Lindbergh in that document will have a chance to compare what he finds in the U. S. with what he found in Germany, Russia, England. His report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: High & Fast | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

Short and stocky, the well-known history expert leaned back in his chair and after a pause began again; "As for the recent resignation of Litvinoff, Russian Foreign, Commissar, I certainly do not believe that it is preliminary to an alliance with Germany. A Hitler-Stalin alliance would be fantastic and it seems to me more likely that Stalin is just trying to scare Chamberlain into a more active agreement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Poland Will Defend Danzig," Claims Karpovich; "War Depends on Hitler" | 5/6/1939 | See Source »

Meanwhile, Billy was finding himself on interesting terms of intimacy with Carrie. She bugged and kissed him, and then danced around holding him on top of her head. When Billy came back, Vag noticed be looked a little paler than before, and he munched his wiener more thoughtfully. But he seemed to want to go on, so Vag pushed over toward the elephants...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 5/5/1939 | See Source »

Rounding out the stern trio, to which Spuhn pays the sincere compliment of calling it "steady," come Hill Bennett and Captain Pitney. Lex Bayard moved back into the No. 5 seat after the Navy contest and is still doing business at the same stand. Charlie Dennison is at home in the first boat, having left his No. 2 of last year to carry on activity at 4. Pat Merle Smith at 3 has been having no trouble in getting back to galley-slave form after a year...

Author: By (crew Editor, Thomas M. Longcope, and Daily Princetonian), S | Title: Tiger Oarsmen Improve After A Narrow Setback in Navy Race | 5/5/1939 | See Source »

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