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Word: francises (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Of all the Colony coops, now employing some 400 men, David Colony is president or vice president, visits each one daily when he is not out selling their product. He is unpopular with his bishop, dignified, 77-year-old Francis Marion Taitt, but says Rector Colony: "There is not a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Entrepreneur of God | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

Francis Michael Shea for Samuel Estill Whitaker in the Claims Division. Out of Dartmouth and Harvard Law School (1928), Mr. Shea worked on AAA, SEC and Puerto Rican Reconstruction before becoming, in 1936, Buffalo Law School's prodigy dean. His special study is bankruptcies & receiverships, at which lawyers rate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Lay Bishop | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

Outside his immediate official family, Frank Murphy has had Franklin Roosevelt's help in strengthening U. S. district and circuit courts, so that he can count on at least one high-calibre judge in each jurisdiction. In Manhattan, he counts on Circuit Judge Robert Porter Patterson, a Republican. In...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Lay Bishop | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

Works Projects' Commissioner Francis C. ("Pink") Harrington, with a reduced appropriation ($1,477,000,000) pared his rolls from 2,200,000 as of last week toward 1,800,000 by mid-September. By September i he must discharge 650,000 (one in three) WPAsters who have been on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: Applied Economy | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

Twenty-two years ago, while the U. S. was trying to win World War I, the Du Ponts set a young engineer, Francis Breese Davis Jr., to building the world's No. 1 guncotton plant at Hopewell, Va. Eleven years ago the Du Ponts acquired control of the sick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Rubber 1939 | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

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