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Word: creeks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some folks kick, say he didn't cut his pay; Remember, he's not fishing, he's working every day; He gave the Republicans a mighty slam; He didn't take twelve years to start the Coal Creek Dam. He sent word to foreign countries, both near and far Just what to expect if they started to war ; He put the mills to working under the N. R. A. Which means shorter hours, and much more pay. He's made his stand, and you know he's tried; He's made many friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Singin' Gatherin' | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

...training program at Cove Creek can be begun, even though we have not a completed plan. This will require a number of men and we should begin to build that staff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER: Morgan, Morgan & Lilienthal | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

...Taylor hates corporations. Therefore, he did not feel that he should sit as a juror in the case about to be tried. In the same jury box briefly occupied by Mr. Taylor, Factory Employe Ralph Mays was asked about his wife, said "She's a Payne from Goose Creek." He was dismissed when it was found that he could hardly read, could write only his name. Talesman John B. Nicholson related that on the way to court he met a cousin, was informed: "John L. Lewis is some kind of Bolshevik." Talesman Owen Hensley knew that his brother Lige...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Case of Mary-Helen | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

...staid residents of Washington should see a dinosaur ambling through Rock Creek Park, they would be surprised. Logically they should be just as surprised at the ginkgo trees, imported from China, which actually grow in large numbers in Washington. The ginkgo or "maidenhair tree" (so called because its leaves resemble maidenhair fern) is a member of the gymnosperms, most primitive of seed plants, and is a relic of the Age of Reptiles, 150,000,000 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ginkgo | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...moment of Mr. Franke's first appearance on the White House scene, septuagenarian Mr. Ford was trying out Attorney General Homer S. Cummings' bullet-proof Lincoln. With Mr. Ford on a breeze through the tortuous roadways of Rock Creek Park were his son Edsel and two Washington correspondents, Clifford Prevost of the Detroit Free Press and Jay G. Hayden of the Detroit News. Both Mr. Prevost and Mr. Hayden have developed excellent news contacts with Ford Motor Co., and they later were to serve as the only authoritative reporters of a historic two hours in the life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Like a Dream | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

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