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Word: dieses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most arresting was her extemporaneous speech challenging the entire U. S. economic system (TIME, March 6). Excerpt: "I believe in the Social Security Act . . . in the National Youth Administration, never as a fundamental answer. . . . These are stopgaps. We bought ourselves time to think. . . . There is no use kidding ourselves. We...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: ORACLE | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

The first half of the story takes them to the California line-a 1,500-mile journey of breakdowns, exhaustion, sickness, death (Grampa dies the second day, Granma as they cross the desert), persecution by cops, tourist-camp proprietors, of miseries to make the old pioneers turn in their graves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Oakies | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

On Civil Liberties the session went on record as approving the LaFollette Committee's work and strongly protesting the Dies Committee's investigation of "Un-American Activities." It also censured poll taxes and other means used to prevent racial minorities from voting.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENT CONGRESS RECEIVES REPORTS | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

Probably the most interesting question the Survey has thus far put to students is the "ism" problem. On this issue fifty-six per cent voted a preference for Communism over Fascism. The result of this poll may have tremendous repercussions. For, if the new generation maintains its bias toward the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "AUTRES TEMPS..." | 4/14/1939 | See Source »

THE LAYMAN invariably suffers a severe shock when he reads a book on religion and finds that it is neither an attempt at conversion nor an attack on his conscience. The concept that a religious book is hurled from a pulpit dies hard in the popular mind, but Dean Sperry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON BOOKSHELF | 3/22/1939 | See Source »

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