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Word: dieses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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The difference lies in the small scale of the entire piece. The characters are relatively few, the scenes simple, the action consistently underplayed. The touches which strike the American audience are the little ones--the close-up of Von Stroheim's gloved fist as his French friend, and prisoner, dies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 1/10/1939 | See Source »

The engaging frankness of this engraved announcement titillated Washington last week. It indicated that the result of Franklin Roosevelt's one Purge success was to supply Washington with one more high-powered lobbyist. For the rest, that success looked singularly hollow: the important House Rules Committee was in such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: New Lobbyist | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

Last week Lloyd Wilson came back at the Bureau. Not to save $6.18 (filing an appeal cost him $10) but to establish a point that "could mean a big saving for a lot of people," he argued that the law recognizes unborn children as living human beings in many other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXATION: Multiplication and Deduction | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

Professor Graebner told the Dies Committee in Washington that the Federal Council "meddled incessantly in political affairs, invariably sponsoring the ideals of radical groups." The Federal Council then holding its biennial meeting in Buffalo, did not tell Heckler Graebner or Congressman Dies to go chase himself. Instead it telegraphed a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Protestantism's Voice | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

>Called before the Dies Committee to answer charges that the Federal Theatre Project had Communistic leanings, FTP Director Hallie Flanagan was accused of quoting from "a Communist named Marlowe." Patiently she explained that the Communist was Christopher Marlowe (1564-93).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Show Business: Dec. 19, 1938 | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

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