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Word: behinder (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...know this-Mr. Baker needed no Senator to tell him about Pershing. Mr. Baker did not work that way. Pershing needed no Senator to present his claims for he did not serve his country that way. Further, if anyone is interested in the record behind Pershing's original promotion from captain to brigadier general he should study the history of Mindanao, where Pershing as a captain had a general officer's command and where he was repeatedly recommended for promotion to brigadier general by his military superiors distant several thousand miles from any political field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 9, 1929 | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

Nineteen guests last week went off with President Hoover for a Friday-to-Tuesday outing at his Shenandoah National Park camp. Many of them went mountain-climbing. President Hoover kept behind six of them-members of the Federal Farm Board-to tell him what the Board had accomplished in its month-and-a-half existence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Hoover Week: Sep. 9, 1929 | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

...district leader is a white man, pitch him out. You have a jimmy in your votes to better conditions. Use it. Don't complain about race discrimination; change it through practical politics. When a Negro doesn't want to elect a Negro, there is either jealousy or dirty money behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Bigger & Blacker | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

Last week, without "shrinking," the Journal was officially folded into the Daily News and made a part of it. Henceforth subscribers of the two newspapers will be served by one full-sized daily, The Chicago Daily News and Chicago Daily Journal. The facts behind the tabloid rumor proved to be as follows: Publisher Thomason of the defunct Journal, retaining those members of his staff who were not taken over to the Daily News in the consolidation, will issue soon an afternoon tabloid newspaper, known as the Daily Times. Copiously illustrated, wholly independent of the Daily News & Journal, it will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Chicago Tabloid | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

Concluding Salesman Collier's text was the slogan: "Get the weight of a common aim, a common purpose, behind both your prayers and your work. go TO CHURCH...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Why Go to Church? | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

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