Word: dec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plea of Mr. Van Wyck Brooks (TIME, Dec. 5) for anti-German bonfires must be both depressing and alarming to those who believe in democracy . . . depressing that one of our most educated citizens should think in terms of bonfires; alarming that he should publicly recommend "the language of bonfires" to the American people as a means of communication. His excuse for the adoption of such a "language"-that the German people can understand no other-is a metaphor that exceeds poetic license...
...Dec. 12 issue of TIME there is a discussion of Aberdeen-Angus cattle in which the breed is described as the "most upstart of all U. S. cattle breeds." If by this phrase the writer meant that the Aberdeen-Angus was the latest of the recognized beef breeds to become established in the U. S., the statement is true; but so far as concerns Scotland, which is the birthplace of the breed, there are legal documents to show that there were black polled cattle in Aberdeenshire over 400 years ago, in 1523 (Macdonald & Sinclair's "History of Aberdeen-Angus...
...keener interest to Washington was a one-man social performance put on between the Roosevelts' parties by Captain Anthony Eden of England. Continuing his "looking and learning" visit to the U. S. (TIME, Dec. 19), he went to Washington as an ordinary member of Parliament, but popular excitement could not have been greater had he still been Foreign Secretary. The press mobbed him at Union Station. Women workers at the State Department and White House left their desks and cubbyholes to gather in adulating clusters around...
...growers and rice farmers turned down quotas last fortnight and cotton is the only major crop that has yet accepted one, for the next crop year AAA's score is one "victory," four "defeats." Result: an increase in the already flourishing crop of pre-Congress AAAttacks, AAAlibis (TIME, Dec...
...change his residence to Chicago, in time for a court to certify him as eligible to run for Mayor of Chicago. In that event, a lot of work might have been saved the Draft-Ickes-for-Mayor Committee headed by Professor Merriam's colleague, Professor Paul Douglas (TIME, Dec...