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Word: forli (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even more phenomenal in 1938 was Thomas E. Dewey's loss of the New York Governorship by less than 1 % of the total vote (4,821,631). To many a U. S. citizen Mr. Dewey was already a glamorous St. George; he became a top G. O. P. possibility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: Hare & Tortoise | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Tortoisy Mr. Taft was nowhere. He had piled one inept act on another, bumbled when the script called for a gag, stumbled over his own and others' feet. In Iowa he denounced corn loans the day the Agriculture Department unloosed $70,000,000 in corn loans to Iowa; in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: Hare & Tortoise | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Tick-timed, effectively voiced, the Dewey speech bettered his flying start. Yet at week's end, after carefully considering everything, wise oldsters of the Republican National Committee definitely ticketed young Mr. Dewey for the No. 2 spot in the 1940 G. O. P. race. General (and damning) opinion was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: Hare & Tortoise | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Last week for Herbert Hoover a cycle of history came full circle. Bombs fell on Helsinki and Bolshevism again marched West.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: Symbol | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Among the wobbling governments of post-War Europe, when revolution or relief were the alternatives, he had packed a lifetime of experience: cabling pleas for food, studying revolution in Hungary as the Bela Kun* Government rose and fell racing around a Europe where panics and crises, revolution and breakdown flared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: Symbol | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

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