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Word: breaths (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Franklin D. Roosevelt can point with pride to the fact that, in the two years and four months since he took office, the breath of scandal has blown but two piddling puffs on his Administration. First puff was the flatulent product of that impressionable Gary, Ind. school superintendent, Dr. William Wirt. whose charges that the Brain Trust was all but in the pay of Moscow made a farcical Congressional investigation last year (TIME, April 23, 1934). Second puff flurried up portentously fortnight ago when Ewing Young Mitchell, whom the President had to oust as Assistant Secretary of Commerce because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Fadeout | 7/1/1935 | See Source »

Thus, in one mighty breath, does Jack Barrowcliffe nightly dispatch from Chicago's La Salle Street Station the Golden State Limited, Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific's crack express to the West Coast. Last week, in Chicago, Dispatcher Barrow-cliffe and five other train-callers participated in a contest the like of which had never before been held-a train-calling competition in connection with Western Railroad Week. The contest was held from a flat car at Wabash Avenue and Madison Street in Chicago's "Loop." Some 2,000 people heard the proceedings through amplifiers, many thousands more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Train Callers | 6/24/1935 | See Source »

...circulation of Hearst's newspapers must be falling off. The New York American has evidently found the Collegiate red scare insufficient and has therefore added a Fascist or "black" scare to its already horror-stricken editorial page. All in the same breath, with no hint of the fact that in itself it has recently been driving towards Fascism, it now violently and somewhat ludicrously attacks both Communism and Fascism in the schools and colleges. In heavy type, it urges American parents to "STOP SENDING THEIR CHILDREN TO INFECTED SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES AND EXPOSING THEM TO THESE POISONOUS ALIEN PLAGUES...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scoop | 6/12/1935 | See Source »

...Fresh as the Breath of Spring," showing the same girl perched on a trunk. ("Always fair weather aboard these trains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Rail Romance | 6/10/1935 | See Source »

They will see portly Dr. Jonathan Campbell Meakins, 53, of Montreal, who last month ended a year's service as president of the American College of Physicians, installed as president of the Canadian Medical Association. They will hear him talk exaltingly on "The Breath of Life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Billings Lecturer | 6/10/1935 | See Source »

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