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Word: downes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mr. Dewey rigorously followed Rules 5, 6, 7 of How To Become President (TIME, Nov. 24, 1930), by cooperating fulsomely with the Press, by traveling about, by appearing hale and lusty on all occasions. For the camera he let his mother pin a flower in his buttonhole; he vigorously strode...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: 1940 | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

>FORTUNE'S September survey deflated all 1940 balloons except Franklin Roosevelt's, found that no honest-to-goodness Republican bandwagon exists. Polices were asked first: If you had your choice in 1940, would you choose Mr. Roosevelt or someone else? Answers: 34.9% would choose Mr. Roosevelt, 53.3% would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: 1940 | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

What they said was that had Führer Hitler struck as the bomb of the German-Russian Pact exploded, he would have begun the war with the advantage. Planted like a great mine before an entrenched position, prepared as stealthily as sappers burrow underground, it was in place, loaded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: War or No Munich | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

There were more important casualties. The British-French military mission to Moscow, the hope of drawing Russia into the British-French guarantee of Poland's independence, the Franco-Soviet military alliance, the comfortable belief of Britons that because the mission was in Moscow, Russia would join France and Britain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: War or No Munich | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

Agriculture. Russian peasants were worried last week, but not about the Pact. They were "greatly unnerved" at something going on in their own back yards. Land-measuring commissioners were prowling around checking up on the small garden plots, on the collective farms, where peasants produce food for themselves. The wheat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Stalin's Harvest | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

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