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Word: comely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cobb but of ("Dear") Alben Barkley. leader of the New Deal majority in the Senate. Since Governor Albert B. ("Happy") Chandler is hot after Mr. Barkley's seat,*Paducah will be Franklin Roosevelt's most Important political stop, on July 9. Next on his visiting list will come Oklahoma, where faithful Senator Elmer Thomas is up for reelection, next, his son Elliott in Fort Worth, Texas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Summer Schedule | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

...such plans to come to Iowa because my doctors would not have permitted them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Iowa Microcosm | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

...refused all honors and titles offered by "perfidious Albion," died in a motorcycle accident three years ago. Instead of one Arab nation, so far there have emerged from the old Ottoman confines five major states: Saudi Arabia, the Yemen, Trans-Jordan, Palestine, Iraq. Lebanon and Syria are soon to come to independent statehood. Of these, only Saudi Arabia, ruled by strong-willed King Ibn Saud, can really call its soul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SYRIA: Boiling Pot | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

Sailing in his glider near Detroit, Elmer Zook chose to come down on a lawn rather than a lake. The owner of the place hurried up to rebuke Elmer Zook, instead helped him dismantle his glider, offered to store it in his garage, sent him home by automobile. On the way home Elmer Zook inquired, "Say, who was that guy?" Replied the chauffeur: "Edsel Ford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 13, 1938 | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

...opponents have claimed that he does not know the mathematics of probability well enough to make such a statement. Perhaps, they hint, if two enormous stacks of ESP cards were matched against each other, one card after another, an average of six or seven hits out of 25 might come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Indefatigable Cardplayer | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

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