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Word: beene (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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He should, however, brush up on what has been happening throughout the long years of his absence before bursting forth with any such smug, sectionalistic, and effete example of ignorance as his "minor league," "hillbilly," and "subsidized players" effort in TIME, Oct. 30. True, circumstances have forced him to dig...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 20, 1939 | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

As dull and darkly melancholy as a three-volume peasant tragedy has been the story of U. S. housing. Many a good citizen, trying to keep awake through a synopsis of the preceding chapters, has found his spirit saddened, his eyes closing, his head nodding. To maintain even its present...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CABINET: Anti-Building Boom | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

One-fourth of all antitrust complaints have been about the building industry, where restraints of trade are found from cellar to roof: producers of building materials, distributors, contractors, subcontractors, labor unions, and in local legislative restraints of trade, such as building "regulations" that only thinly veil protective tariffs set up...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CABINET: Anti-Building Boom | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Frantic for fear that Mr. Arnold's bombardment would smash their unions, or break a way for C.I.O. raiders, for weeks the A. F. of L. leaders have been strengthening their defenses. Shouted A. F. of L. Counsel Joseph Padway six weeks ago: "God deliver us from college professors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CABINET: Anti-Building Boom | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

When the returns were in last week, Mr. Pommer was back for his 42nd year, now as senior councilman. Keystone of his winning campaign was his philosophy: "I have always been man enough to stand on my own two shoulders."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ELECTIONS: Human Domino | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

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