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Word: electioneerings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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When war broke loose Franklin Roosevelt in the White House had tocsined the U. S. public to a feverish pitch. Then he permitted a week of domestic calm. Last week, before Congress met, he got on the bell-rope again. He upped the Coast Guard's personnel by 2...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Opening Gun | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

As for finding spots in which to hear good jamming or to do a little playing yourself, they just don't exist in Beantown. The number of jam joints in any given locality can always be obtained by squaring the difference between midnight and the liquor curfew. In Boston, the...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 9/30/1939 | See Source »

A bigger order faced another Latin American nation, Mexico, for War II had probably brought her about as much trouble as any country south of the Rio Grande. With a presidential election coming up next year that is almost sure to cause trouble, Mexico was faced with another period of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Troubles | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

Not in its 17-year professional career has U. S. radio broadcasting encountered such a story as the brewing of World War II, and the networks went after it with the enthusiastic bustle of a newspaper city room on election night. On this assignment, radio was no cub. Its coverage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Air Alarums | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

Expenditures: Nails, 70? ; postage, 39?; work on street and bridge, $10.75; lumber, $10.10; election, $3.00; gravel, $39.40; hauling, $1.25; pump repair, $1.00; tax collector's commissions, $19.23; cash on hand, $129.30. Total $215.12.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Sep. 11, 1939 | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

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