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Word: followance (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Readers of recent muckraking histories like Matthew Josephson's The Robber Barons are likely to feel they have heard all they want to about early U. S. railroad builders. In monotonous procession the great figures of the post-Civil War period follow each other-all up to their ears in political intrigues, angling for Federal land grants, corrupting legislatures, double-crossing the public, their stockholders and each other so consistently that it seems remarkable the railroads ever got built...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: California Quartet | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

...FOLLOW SAINT PATRICK-Oliver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wit's Saint | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

...Britain to send a mediator. Next day Prague officials said they had sent no invitation, added that of course they would "welcome" the Viscount. Leading French Newspundit Pertinax (André Géraud) bitterly deplored the creation of a situation in which both Prague and Paris will have to follow the lead of London. For most commentators agreed that British public opinion will never support the use of arms to aid Czechoslovakia if the recommendations of Lord Runciman are against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Britain-on-the-Danube | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

...send two of their three children to the U. C. L. A. nursery school. Capra's present contract at Columbia calls for one more picture. A major subject of current Hollywood gossip is whether, now that Writer Riskin has left Columbia to join Sam Goldwyn, Director Capra will follow him next year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Columbia's Gem | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

...replaced by Rogers Hornsby in the midst of a pennant tug of war. In 1932 Manager Hornsby (a $250,000 investment) was suddenly supplanted by First Baseman Charlie Grimm. Because Manager Grimm went on to win the pennant in 1932, Owner Wrigley last week had an excellent precedent to follow. Catcher Hartnett was the necessary spark plug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: That's Baseball | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

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