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Word: dough (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...farewell to dapper little Roy Howard, who had been his boss for almost twelve years. Said Broun, polite as always, though he dictated from his bed in a Manhattan hotel, where he lay ill with grippe: "There were fights, frenzies, some praise and a lot of dough, and a good deal of fun in my relationship with Roy." Said Roy Howard, also polite, in a note appended to Broun's column: "Heywood was occasionally a bit of a headache. But like many another headache, he was worth the price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Last Column | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...Read Machinery Co., Inc., producer of dough mixers for bakeries, had an order for 60-mm. trench howitzers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: War News | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...unavoidable. American public opinion would not permit any embargoes to be placed on our foreign trade, not only because it is profitable, but also because it is almost entirely with the Allies, with whom our sympathies lie. As a Washington wiseacre commented, "For once, the dough and the ideals are on the same side." They certainly seem to make an unbeatable combination. We can only pray that the Neutrality Bill, which seems soon to be passed, will keep the resulting boom from completely wrecking our neutrality. If properly administered, it should be able...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SMOKE SCREEN | 10/31/1939 | See Source »

...gunning for the Governorship, with a plan to tax oil for old-age pensions ("A Nickel a Barrel for Grandma"). Governor O'Daniel, who said he would pass the biscuits to all the old folks when he was Governor, is still trying to get his hands on the dough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Sadler in the Saddle | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

Britain's Magna Charta gave the power and prerogatives to the barons, who have held them ever since-the backdoor of the peerage-cum-charmed political circle always being carefully left wide open to "commoners" who have the dough and can read without moving their lips, also, for safety's sake, to an occasional pale pink radical with an orthodox Imperial slant to his ideas. The country's masses, politically ignorant and acquiescent because they are continually mesmerized by a puppet press masquerading as democratic, have yet to realize that they are on the outside looking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Letters, Aug. 21, 1939 | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

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