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Word: deathly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wish to announce the work I prize above all. It is your most clever and appealing notice of Walt Mason's death [TIME, July 3, p. 31]. He was my friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 17, 1939 | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

...death and obsequies of Secretary of the Navy Swanson last week delayed the Neutrality war between President and Congress. It also opened up a new political vista. Mentioned to fill the Navy vacancy, or the No. 2 job there after moving up Acting Secretary Charles Edison, was Missouri's Governor Lloyd Crow Stark, newly famed for smacking down villainous Boss Tom Pendergast of Kansas City (TIME, April 17, et seq.). Mr. Stark, an Annapolis graduate, is now high on the White House's list of 1940 prospects. Calling him for duty at Washington would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Cannon-Cracker | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

...private car. A guard of honor (four squads of Marines, with drum & bugle corps) met him at Union Station and celebrations began along the well-trodden trail-wreaths at Arlington and Mount Vernon, inspection of the CCC camp at Fort Hunt, cocktails with Congressmen. But the next day, Death squelched the squeeze play. In deference to his late Secretary of the Navy (see below). President Roosevelt postponed Trujillo's tea to this week. The visit with Secretary Hull became a brief formal call.* The Pan American party was canceled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Squeeze Play | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

...benefits. He filled gaps in WPA's skilled ranks with qualified applicants from the city's home-relief lists, and by shifting skilled non-unionists from project to project. At the unionists he snorted: "If they'd all quit, we'd be tickled to death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: Mutiny on the Bounty | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

...company to pay interest on its $3,971,000 bonded debt. Some five years ago Miss Roche stepped out of the presidency to become Assistant Secretary of the U. S. Treasury, turned over the job of running the company to able J. Paul Peabody. Last year, after his death, she returned to the job, later asked bondholders to take interest cuts in their R. M. F. 5s. They refused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MINING: R. M. F. | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

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