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Word: dieses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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With half the nation up to its ears in politics, Franklin Roosevelt last week played his familiar double role: half chief of the Democratic Party, half Chief Executive. As a partyman he flared angrily at Congressman Dies for embarrassing faithful Frank Murphy's re-election campaign in Michigan (see...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Roosevelt Week: Nov. 7, 1938 | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

Fate and Texas gave Martin Dies an impressive physique, a durable voice, a seat in Congress. Mr. Dies lately has given the U. S. a Congressional investigation. By the standards of past masters at inquisition his performance has not been brilliant. Ex-Senator (now Associate Justice) Hugo L. Black was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: Dies and Duty | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

To his investigation of un-American activities Mr. Dies has brought principally a $25,000 appropriation, a willingness (common to Congressional ferrets) to hear what he believes, a succession of renegade leftists, ex-union officers and members turned talebearer, avowed spies, patriotic citizens bursting with information about the Reds. Mr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: Dies and Duty | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

Democrat Dies recently looked into the automobile sit-down strikes of 1937 in Michigan. The committee and its witnesses lit into C. I. O.'s United Automobile Workers of America as Communist-ridden lawbreakers, into Michigan's Governor Frank Murphy as a weakling official who condoned Communist sit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: Dies and Duty | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

Candidate Benson worries not so much about the 125,000 votes Stassen polled in the Republican primary as the 210,000 votes polled by insurgent ex-Governor Hjalmar Petersen in the Farmer-Labor primary. Insurgent Petersen, who thinks he and not "Radical" Elmer Benson is the rightful heir of Farmer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Drugstore Cowboy | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

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