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Word: forli (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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To Col. Shartle all thanks for correcting a photographer's 20-year-old error. -ED.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 30, 1929 | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

¶ To the White House went conscientious Major O. Lee Bodenhamer, National Commander of the American Legion, to ply the President with dozens of plans for Legion-sponsored reforms.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Appointments | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

A graduate of Brenau College in her home town, Miss Matthews taught school for a dozen years in Georgia, went to Washington 15 years ago as a clerk in the Treasury's Bureau of Internal Revenue. Ambitious, she studied law, became a double taxation expert, accompanied U. S. delegations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Appointments | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

When her nomination reached the Senate, Miss Matthews's experience in and connection with the Treasury were paradoxically the very things that militated against her immediate confirmation. Confirming her once, the Senate withdrew its approval for further consideration after Senator Couzens, Treasury foe, unearthed a Senate resolution barring appointments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Appointments | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

¶ In the East room a sober public Christmas tree, adorned with a scene of the Nativity, was set up while a family tree upstairs was decked with tinsel, colored lights. Mrs. Hoover had bookstores searched for travel and mystery books, the President's favorites. From all over U.S...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Appointments | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

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