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Word: buts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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¶ Same night in Manhattan, Ohio's Governor John William Bricker further disclaimed responsibility for Cleveland's relief crisis (TIME, Dec. 4, et seq.). It was not a yen to finish his year with a balanced budget, but Democratic manipulations in WPA and lackadaisical local administrators that were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: 1940 | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Said Mrs. Garner: "They're hunting deer as usual. [But] I'm hoping they'll bring back a turkey."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: On the Hunt | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Altering garments to fit the infinite variety of women's figures keeps a great many people busy; but it annually costs U. S. manufacturers an estimated $10,000,000. Nobody sympathized with them until they appealed to the Government. The Government agreed that something ought to be done.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: No Boondoggling | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

"The Christmas celebration in Germanic lands is not an invention of the Christian Church but of our forefathers. The day of the Winter Solstice was holy to our ancestors and the period around the Winter Solstice was filled with the fairyland magic of the Nordic soul. In this period gifts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Christmas | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

The Army and Big Business have tried to get the Führer to move Christmas this year to Sunday, Dec. 24, so that munitions production would hum as usual on Monday, the 25th. Adolf Hitler is an extremely backslidden Roman Catholic, but no fool. He declined to take this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Christmas | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

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