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Word: coms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...intense hatred of all Germans and Italians. They won't let either German or Italian warships into Barcelona inner harbor, whereas any British or French vessel can go alongside the docks." Two days later California Dancer Florence Miller of a Canadian vaudeville troupe known as The Tony Wine Com-pany which has been playing Catalonia, got out of Barcelona after all members of the company had been "conscripted" by the radical militia and put to work giving five shows a day for militiamen with the threat that anyone who refused to dance, sing or wisecrack would be considered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Long Live Dynamite! | 8/31/1936 | See Source »

...young Commissioner Douglas declared: "By & large, the corporate trustee has been sitting idly by while bondholders have been exploited. . . . And when I speak of the corporate trustees, I am speaking about some of the leading banks of the country, some of which served their proprietary interests in an issuing com pany before fiduciary interests were served...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Trustees Reformed? | 6/29/1936 | See Source »

Next to Frank Buchman, beaming and circulating briskly among the numerous places where Assembly meetings were held, the most ubiquitous Grouper was A. S. Loudon Hamilton, the tall, burly, pink-cheeked Scot who is second in com mand in the Group's world army. It was in his Oxford rooms that the movement received its first impetus in 1921. Subsequently a footballer at Colgate University, Grouper Hamilton married, begat two children, continued to live on a basis of faith without ever accepting a salaried position. Said he last week: "It takes God's guidance to make a Scot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Groupers in Stockbridge | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

...Barkley or Republican Sena tor McNary for opponents. He likes being where he can spend an evening watching a wrestling match or sitting in on a game of bridge or poker, which he plays expertly, with considerable bluffing. He likes to be where his hosts of bigwig friends are com ing & going, where cronies like Joseph Tumulty, Marvin Mclntyre and Steve Early can drop in on him and Mrs. Harri son at their pleasant home on Cathedral Avenue. But Pat Harrison currently yearns to get away from all this as soon as he can because he is facing his first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Taxmaster | 6/1/1936 | See Source »

...will be given this summer to workers "with five or more years of continuous service." Roared President Michael F. Tighe of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel & Tin Workers: "I think it is a fake thrown out by the corporation for the purpose of keeping the employes interested in com-pany unions." Using the added costs of vacation pay as an excuse, U. S. Steel's biggest subsidiary, Carnegie-Illinois, promptly opened its books for third quarter business with prices boosted as much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Wages & Workers | 6/1/1936 | See Source »

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