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Word: handly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unimportant to Joe Kennedy was his garb: Important was the bulging briefcase he clutched in one freckled hand - the fruit of a year's diplomatic ferreting in London's Whitehall by the U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. After a quick change Mr. Kennedy zipped to the White House. It was before 10 a. m., when Franklin Roosevelt goes to the Executive Office. Bobbing in his blue uniform, 68-year-old Negro Butler Charles Green grinned a welcome, threw open both White House doors to grinning Mr. Kennedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Smiling Sphinx | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...other hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Smiling Sphinx | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...left the matter on a 24-hour basis. Franklin Roosevelt firmly believes that in his foreign policy he has made but one bad blunder: withdrawal one year ago of U. S. Ambassador to Germany Hugh Wilson. Mr. Roosevelt regards Ambassadors as reporters, doesn't like the second-hand reports now coming out of Berlin to the U. S. via London and Paris. The Kremlin, he well knows, would not care a fingersnap if Mr. Steinhardt were recalled, and then the U. S. S. R. would indeed be an insoluble mystery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Smiling Sphinx | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...liberals and Communists can tread together the path toward a fuller democracy. A purge is not the way to quiet these doubts, for the Communists stand for certain progressive measures which belong in any liberal program. But the situation is hazy and formless. The H.S.U. contains on the one hand a tightly knit, unified Communist group; on the other hand a liberal potpourri. If the H.S.U. is to educate effectively, it must clear up this confusion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD'S UNITED FRONT | 12/14/1939 | See Source »

Study cards for the second half year are due tomorrow, December 14, at 5 o'clock, in Room 2, University Hall. A student who falls to hand in his card on time, whether he expects to be in College or not, will be liable for a $5 line. No extensions will be granted except on account of illness...

Author: By United Press, | Title: ALL UNDERGRADUATES | 12/13/1939 | See Source »

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