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Word: factly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact that the President of the U. S. considered it advisable to rouse reporters in the middle of the night, to say something which the world has every reason to take for granted, was not last week quite so remarkable as it might have seemed. Plain purpose of the midnight letter was to make front-page news in time to affect House debate on the bill which for a month has been causing the major political battle of the nation. Day after the Senate passed the bill last fortnight, the battleground shifted from Washington to Warm Springs when Franklin Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Midnight Mystery | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

...Wisconsin's onetime President Glenn Frank chairman. Whether the Committee should be listed as an asset or a liability will presumably remain undecided until next winter when it releases its report-of which, to the party's practical politicians, the only real virtue appears to be the fact that it will not be released until after election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Elephant Boy | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

...calls for craftiness, energy and a head for vote-getting detail, three qualities for which Joseph William Martin Jr., however little his name has appeared in the headlines, is pre-eminent in his party. In 1936, the abysmal failure of Republican strategy was nowhere better demonstrated than in the fact that money was overconfidently squandered trying to win in Congressional districts where the fight was hopeless, saved in districts where the fight was close. Overconfidence is not one of Joe Martin's faults. Less sanguine than the Gallup poll, he visualizes not much more than 75 new seats this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Elephant Boy | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

These and several similar endorsements by Catholic prelates obtained by Nazi Bürckel last week had in common the fact that these signed statements affirmed they were made not under duress but "joyfully," "with undisguised joy," "voluntarily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Public Enlightenment | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

...readers may not notice how shrewdly his characters are drawn. A libertine, indulgent, temperamental, Costals undertakes the amorous education of Solange with a patience that astonishes even himself. He raves about her legs, her eyes, her hair, her ears, her wrist watch, her vaccination marks, her manners and the fact that she does not read his novels, "When she blows her little nose," he exclaims, "it's always behind a newspaper (moderate in its views) so that I shan't see her do anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Novelist's Tricks | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

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