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Word: franked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Retentions. President Hoover last week retained in office: Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines, retired director of the U. S. Veterans Bureau; Brig. Gen. Herbert M. Lord, retired Director of the Budget; Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett, since 1921 Chief of the Bureau of Naval Aeronautics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Appointments | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

Meanwhile Helen has become Walden's most distinguished pupil. A smooth-haired, frank-faced girl, she likes "any outdoor sport and taking care of babies." She enjoys "most any type book, particularly college stories." She also says: "I would like to be a high school teacher when I have completed high school and college...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: An Old Man's Memory | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...course it was all in vain. President Herbert Hoover had long since cast his sympathies against the rebels and on the side of squarejawed, gnarled-fisted President of Mexico Senor Emilio Portes Gil. Just to make assurance doubly ironclad, Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg told correspondents that "under no circumstances" would the State Department recognize the soi-disant and really nonexistent Valenzuela government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: 15 Days to Live? | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

Karl W. Fasold (Pathe). He turned his crank while Racer Frank Lockhart's car, upset by a blow-out in a time-trial last year, somersaulted over his head in one of its giant bounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newsreelers | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

Besides its thrills "The Skull" has very little indeed to offer. The authors are frank enough to make no pretense at plot, and the advertisements for the play stress the chills and laughs, not the tenseness of plot situation. If sudden shrieks, queer lights, clutching hands, ghost voices and such phenomena thrill you, there is little doubt that "The Skull" will prove very satisfactory fare. But if you demand more of a mystery play, if you ask a cleverly worked plot you will find the play lacking...

Author: By J. H. S., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 3/20/1929 | See Source »

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