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Word: handedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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> As if to hammer home the irreducibility of big Government expenditures, the President handed on to Congress a report of the Social Security Board. Mr. Roosevelt warmly approved recommendations that old-age insurance payments be started in 1940 instead of 1942, that coverage be extended to some 16,000,000...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Parties & Men | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

A short-handed Jayvee basketball squad journeyed to Andover Wednesday afternoon and emerged on the short end of a 40 to 36 score with the Blue. Bill MsSweeney with 11' points and Bill McDonald with 10 tallies kept Coach Johnny Wiod's charges in the ball game until the final...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jayvee Basketball | 1/20/1939 | See Source »

> By a revision of the rules, Administration leaders took World War pension matters out of the hands of the liberal Pensions Committee, handed them to the World War Veterans' Legislation Committee (Mississippi's Rankin, chairman).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Acts & Facts | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

Mr. Heil's more politically experienced colleagues were worried by such high-handed talk, for its university is one of Wisconsin's great popular prides. They remonstrated with him, and at another budget hearing, on a teacher's retirement fund, Julius Heil showed he was learning his...

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

One day last week it was opened and closed for good. Governor Olson brought Tom Mooney, dressed in a neat striped prison-made suit, from San Quentin to Sacramento. The grey-haired convict stepped up beside the grey-haired Governor before an audience of 500 in the Assembly chamber. He...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: 22 Years After | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

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