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Word: goings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Representative Wallace H. White Jr. of Maine, Chairman of the House Merchant Marine Committee, called at the White House. He told the President that much sentiment had arisen in the Committee to drop all radio legislation, to allow the Federal Radio Commission to go out of existence as an administrative body in March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Jan. 28, 1929 | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

Senator Carter Glass said: "I am unwilling to have anybody in Virginia suppose that I am simple enough to imagine that this treaty is worth a postage stamp in bringing about international peace . . . but it would be psychologically bad to defeat it. . . . I'm going to be simple enough to go along with the balance of you and vote for this thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Senate Week | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

Character of U. S. Representation. "Mr. Morgan and I go as private citizens. While the Dawes Plan was being formulated five years ago the American government expressed no wishes to the American experts, and I do not believe it will do so now. When it was proposed to invite the present American experts our government declared it had no objection to such a course and no objections to the persons invited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Morgan Accepts | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

...they spoiled? . . . When they are ill, they have to go to hospital, to get the care that an ordinary Englishwoman . . . would get from her servant as a matter of course. . . . There are many towns in America without one single, solitary servant, towns where all the women have to do their own housework, cooking, most of the washing, and usually the gardening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Spoiled U. S. Women? | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

Never mind; lucky for all lovers of justice and entertainment, the trial will be held again tonight and probably for a good many nights to come at the Wilbur Theatre. Go and serve on the jury, sit in judgement upon this woman and find out that jury duty is the pleasantest task imaginable...

Author: By P. C. S., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 1/25/1929 | See Source »

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