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Word: downes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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So Franklin Roosevelt settled down to supervise his sub-Cabinet's preparations to cushion war-shock for U. S. citizens, money and markets (see col. 3). He pondered addressing Joseph Stalin as an added effort, with the backing of other American republics, but held his hand. It seemed he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Off-Base | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

Last week placid, union-wise Father Maguire did a signal service to Labor and to another St. Viator alumnus. Vice President of big Warner Construction Co. is Thomas LeRoy Warner, who studied under Father Maguire over 30 years ago and is still his admiring friend. Last July his company was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Maguire of Green Mountain | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

Furious little Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia told off his police, later snarled to reporters: "I didn't carry any medals down to Police Headquarters." It turned out that Lepke had strolled the streets of New York City for two years, had done some drinking "downtown," disguised only by 20 pounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: This is Lepke | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

Ex-Mayor John Lynch, victorious over the incumbent in a libel suit but loser in the 1937 election, has also thrown down the glove. Another important candidate may be ex-Mayor Richard M. Russell '14, who could probably repeat his previous reform and economy victory

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Red Hot Campaign For Mayor Likely | 9/1/1939 | See Source »

The parade of triumphs over the Elis started on a rainy afternoon in the grim, gray Yale bowl, when a favored Crimson eleven finally struck down a particularly tenacious bulldog. Torby Macdonald, captain of the current eleven, snatched a pass over the goal line in the gloaming and "Chie," Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Teams Won Five Yale Contests Last Year | 9/1/1939 | See Source »

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