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Word: dieses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Senators were smacking the Administration's face with a negative (see p. 12), Representatives last week smacked it with a positive. Taking control of the Rules Committee right out of the hands of aged Chairman Sabath, they rammed through a new lease of life for the Committee to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: National Figure | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

Mr. Dies had to be content with an extension of one year and a promised appropriation of $100,000 (to be voted later), instead of two years and $150,000. His victory was otherwise impressive. Starting as a nobody who became head of the seriocomic Demagogs' Club in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: National Figure | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

1) The Administration's feeble grip on important Rules, which Messrs. Dies, Dempsey (New Mexico) and Cor (Georgia) ran pretty much to suit themselves during the hearings. At one point poor old Chairman Sabath was nearly in tears as he banged on the table and shouted: "Don't...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: National Figure | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

3) The formidable new political stature of Martin Dies who, explaining why he had attacked Cabinet members (Perkins, Hopkins, Ickes), said it was because, after refusing to cooperate in his Red hunt, they had attacked him, an agent of the Congress !

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: National Figure | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

Representative Cox: "The Cabinet members have done one thing. They've made a national figure out of Martin Dies!"

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: National Figure | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

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