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Word: glenns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senators wanted to know if, as the Wisconsin Legislature had averred, he was Communistic. "I am not a Communist," Tom Amlie said. "My differences with Communism are fundamental. . . . To charge me with being a Communist . . . is just as ridiculous as charging Glenn Frank." Fear of fascism in the U. S., he said, was his reason for advocating some form of democratic collectivism involving production control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Parade of the Left | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...Captain Bob Haydock, '39, twelve members of the Varsity track team will make their winter debut in the K. of C. Meet tomorrow night. The Crimson contingent is not expected to do more than place one or two men in a field which includes such star performers as Glenn Cunningham, Dave Albritton and Alan Tolmich, but as Coach Mikkola puts it: "Upsets can happen anytime...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Twelve Harvard Track Men To Compete in K. C. Games | 1/27/1939 | See Source »

Businessman Heil began budget hearings in a mood of high scorn for the incompetence and extravagance of public officials. He asked President Clarence A. Dykstra (pronounced dike´-struh) of the University of Wisconsin-formerly Cincinnati's efficient city manager, with whom Governor La Follette replaced Republican Dr. Glenn Frank-for a breakdown showing the cost-per-student of each department in the university. He said that in his business, when a department was found inefficient, it was discontinued. Said he, "I want to know if there is a cancerous growth, and if there is, I want to cure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WISCONSIN: Heil Heil | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

...When Glenn Frank was made Chairman of a policy committee of the Republican Party, the public justifiably drew the conclusion that at long last glimmerings of liberalism were to be seen in the eye of the Grand Old Party. Recent election of many liberal Republicans apparently confirmed this impression. But around the dinner table just a short time ago there was transacted a bit of business which, if its full implications are realized, will throw real doubt on the proposition that the leopard has changed his spots...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A MATTER OF SPOTS | 12/3/1938 | See Source »

...grouping of the actors on various stage levels to display the proper subordination of characters is excellent. A blatant loudspeaker, an overdose of fire and brimstone, insecure craftsmanship in the delivery of certain vital lines, and a lack of restraint in the comedy detract somewhat from the performances of Glenn Wilson as Faust and Basil Burwell as Mephistopheles, but Faust's struggle between his better self and his lost for power is nonetheless arresting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 11/30/1938 | See Source »

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