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Word: beene (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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The letter of Mr. E. P. Holton of Los Angeles [TIME, Sept.11], suggesting that Great Britain grant the United States title to the British possessions in the Western Hemisphere, including all Pacific islands, but excluding the Dominion of Canada, received a favorable vote in this community. I have submitted the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 2, 1939 | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

Noticeable to me, as it must have been to many other Americans of Irish birth or descent, was TIME'S (Sept.11 issue) omission of Ireland's leaders in the list of those of other European countries as of September, 1939 . . . In her position as a mother country and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 2, 1939 | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

At present our government is preparing industry on a vast scale for a climax known as "M" day. It has been brought to my attention by several people concerned with the coffin industry that their business is being completely overlooked. During World War I the shattered remains of Americans were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 2, 1939 | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

Mr. Roosevelt said that he had been thinking of much the same thing: he had four sons (James, 31; Elliott, 29; Franklin Jr., 25; John, 23) and the law of averages would hit him harder than Maury Maverick. With a froglike grin, Mayor Maverick said that he hoped the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Hopeful Mayor | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

> "[When the Neutrality Act was first passed] there would have been no difference between the export of cotton and the export of gun cotton. Today there is. Before 1935 there would have been no difference between the shipment of brass tubing in piece form and brass tubing in shell form...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Opening Gun | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

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