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Word: busyness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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In those days we had on the big and busy staff Lee Stowe, now one of the Herald Tribune's ace men in Europe; Elliot Paul, whose latest novel you favorably review in the same issue; Whit Burnett and Martha Foley who left the Herald to start Story, a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 8, 1939 | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

>Mr. Roosevelt made a point of sleeping through Herr Hitler's speech at 6 a. m. E. S. T. So far as he was concerned, Hitler was "stopped" for the time being and the President of the U. S. was busy at home. He had a World's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Mankind Invited | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

While Poland and Germany thus prepared for a showdown, journalistic prophets were busy. New York Times Correspondent G. E. R. Gedye journeyed from Europe to Manhattan to declare "war inevitable." Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor William Philip Simms was more explicit. He wrote from Washington he had "secret information" that F...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER POLITICS: Danger Spot | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

Uncle Sam is not the kind That's looking for a fuss; But if they should feel inclined To take a shot at us- Talk about your rallying Should the bugle blow, No delay or dallying, Bang! And off we'd go! We must be ready. It'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ready Cohan | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

When the German Government gave the Jews a final turn of the screw last winter, many an observer predicted that the Roman Catholic Church would be next on the rack-put there by Nazis covetous of its big German properties. Up to last week, however, Adolf Hitler was too busy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Political Debasement | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

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