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Word: francises (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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An amiable paragon, strapping, soft-voiced, easy-smiling "Charlie" Taft is a 38-year-old product of his father's public career, his mother's piety, his uncle Horace's Taft School, Yale, the A. E. F. and Cincinnati's Charter movement. At Yale (Class of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Middle-of-the-Roader | 8/3/1936 | See Source »

Stretched shoeless on his bed in a Chicago hotel one day last week, Dr. Francis E. ("The Plan") Townsend received the Press, thoughtfully rejected a suggestion that he might be the next President of the U. S. "I wouldn't be a candidate," mused the 69-year-old onetime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THIRD PARTIES: Merger of Malcontents | 7/27/1936 | See Source »

San Francisco took the visiting dentists at their face value, bedecked the city with lavender & white bunting (A. D. A. colors), supplied special free trips to the two great bridges being constructed across San Francisco Harbor. The Glad Tiding Temple Bible Institute's motorized loudspeaker serenaded the dentists with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Teeth Up | 7/27/1936 | See Source »

Similar was the case in 1934. when NRA sent rank-&-filers trooping into the tight, little Amalgamated Union of Steel's aristocratic craftsmen. The young newcomers jolted Amalgamated's ineffectual old President Michael Francis Tighe out of his well-paid complacency by proposing to improve the steel worker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Goal Behind Steel | 7/20/1936 | See Source »

Only Rotary International is really international, having no less than 170,000 members in 4,000 clubs in 82 lands. Kiwanis International with 90,000 members in 1,900 clubs is mostly confined to the U. S. and Canada. Lions International has two clubs in China but is largely a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Boosters | 7/6/1936 | See Source »

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