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Word: departmenters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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To the joy of Mr. Curran and the red-faced rage of Martin Dies, New Orleans police asked Washington police to hold Witness McCuistion, charging that he had had a hand in beating and shooting to death a Curranite last September. Chairman Dies roared that it was a dirty union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: Hero's Week | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

In 1936, active, wiry Harry Yarnell became Commander in Chief of the Asiatic Fleet with the rank of Admiral. He had no hobby but his assignment, of which he made a deep and unremitting study. In his hot spot in the Far East he sat coolly, made the U. S...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Beached | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

From the only man who ever bought a business* from five Jews and sold it to seven Scotchmen at a profit, this was a dire prophecy. Yet the pert, imaginative magnifico-who cleaned up a cool million in Chicago's Marshall Field & Co. and in 1909 impudently invaded London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Out of Oxford Street | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

Fortnight ago Harry Selfridge's son, handsome, fun-loving H. Gordon Jr., resigned his directorships in Selfridge's and its West London white elephant, William Whiteley, Ltd. (bought in Britain's 1927 boom), but kept his managerial job in the 19 Selfridge Provincial Stores throughout England and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Out of Oxford Street | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

To the coal problem, the Army's answer is the Columbia River's Bonneville Dam. (But Administrator Paul Raver boasted last week at the White House that demand for Bonneville power is currently twice its output.) Instead of coal (used in blast furnaces for iron-making, in open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Westward Ho! | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

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