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Word: electioneerings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Now I happened to be living in London during that year and for many years before and after the coal strike. I know that in England at least the forgery of the "Zinovieff papers" was revealed to the satisfaction of every man and woman in Britain with the capacity to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 5, 1937 | 4/5/1937 | See Source »

Let Reader Nicolais mend her dates, recall that the Zinovieff letter figured in the British general election of 1924, two years before leaders of the British coal strike received through Lloyds and other banks some $2,000,000 from the Commercial and Industrial Bank of the U. S. S. R...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 5, 1937 | 4/5/1937 | See Source »

Therefore, Dean Smith proposed, let the President have a chance to have his way, but by national referendum, not legislative fiat. The President wanted to rejuvenate the present Court, provide for a constant infusion of new blood into it. Then let an amendment be offered providing for compulsory retirement of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: An Amendment | 4/5/1937 | See Source »

Why not, indeed? asked the President's vastly heartened Opposition. Senator Burke promptly proclaimed that he would redraft his amendment to include Dean Smith's staggered retirement system and uniform State conventions. Texas' Tom Connally, another Presidential Plan antagonist, planned one without the stagger. Most significant converts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: An Amendment | 4/5/1937 | See Source »

Then on the broad pavement of Cadillac Square, hedged round with modern office buildings and old fashioned three-and-four-story shops, a human mass began to accumulate. It grew slowly at first, but soon swelled bigger than the normal rush hour crowd, bigger than an election crowd, big as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Progress in Michigan | 4/5/1937 | See Source »

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