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Word: frees (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...representing shippers and shipowners at the loading point. All but 2% of these vital ciphers are Bridges' men. To bring the 2% into the union, the 98% struck. Whereupon their bosses closed the port, last week rejected all offers of compromise. They hoped to preserve the principle of free hiring in one last corner of Mr. Bridges' water front...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Last Corner | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...suspects "there are some pages over which people will stop and wonder." It was a time of growing violence, growing paradox, growing economic change and bewilderment: "of [Northern] abolitionists hanged, shot, stabbed, mutilated, disfigured facially by vitriol, their home doorways painted with human offal ... of the 260,000 free Negroes of the South owning property valued at $25,000,000, one of them being the wealthiest landowner in Jefferson County, Va. ... of Southern planters and merchants being $200,000,000 in debt to the North and chiefly to the money controllers of New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Your Obt. Servt. | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

Potential material for the distance free style events are Bus Curwen, who prepped at Exeter, and Frank German, from Cleveland. Bob Stires also shapes up as a good distance swimmer but he seems versatile enough to serve as a general utility...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '43 Swimming Prospects Look Promising to Coach Peterson | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

Artie Shaw may have left the music business of his own free will. But he did so about two jumps ahead of an eviction order. The dance public is relieved rather than worried about his departure...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 12/1/1939 | See Source »

Investigators have found that employees, who in some extreme cases have been paid only two cents an hour, have been afraid to tell of their plight out of lean of losing their jobs. "For them free speech is just an ideal dream," said the young politician...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELIOT, POLAND SPEAK FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES | 11/29/1939 | See Source »

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