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Word: class (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four days earlier of another Ambassador named Joseph. Home from his complete capture of London was "Joe" Kennedy with flashing smiles for the press, a "long and somewhat cheerless" report to the President about conditions abroad, emphatic denials of any mission more secret than attending Joe Jr.'s class day exercises at Harvard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Squared Away | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, '04, was not there. Neither was honeymooning Son John, '38. But Harvard's reuning alumni had the Roosevelts very much in mind when they gathered in Soldiers Field last week for the annual class-day parade and confetti fight. They spoke their minds with missiles more punishing than confetti...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Barbed Confetti | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

...mile. ICC also approved a reorganization plan of Spokane International Railway and Coeur d'Alene & Pend d'Oreille Railway calling for the merger of the two. Total trackage of these two roads is 161 miles, but the event was a milestone: the first ICC approval of a Class I reorganization since Section 77 of the Bankruptcy Law was extended to railroads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Government's Week: Jun. 27, 1938 | 6/27/1938 | See Source »

...Maurras' election precipitated a scandal, not because he was a worse writer than several other "immortals," but because his election marks the most stinging slap in the face that the Republic has yet taken from French Royalists. Royalists dominate the Academy, but Maurras' Royalism is in a class by itself-it goes back further and is more venomous than that of all the others combined. In the Royalist newspaper, Action Française, which he founded in 1898, his savage diatribes against the Republic (which he calls "the whore") have even embarrassed some fellow Royalists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Immortal Election | 6/27/1938 | See Source »

...cruelty toward his own officers (he humors the rank-&-file, who dote on him). The high point of his officer-discipline is when he flogs an officer who has shot two Cossacks, then burns him at the stake-a scene which puts all stories of lynching in the primer class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Peculiar Horror | 6/27/1938 | See Source »

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