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Word: headedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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If the Reorganization bill had passed, Harry Hopkins would have become de jure what he is de facto-an important member of the President's Cabinet. He may yet do so next session. If and when a new Department of Welfare is created, it will doubtless be staffed by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: Men at Work | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

For generations hardy Chinese fishermen have nosed their little junks into the treacherous South China Sea, headed for the small group of uninhabited coral atolls known as the Paracel Islands. On these reefs, located 300 miles south of the China coast and 250 miles east of French Indo-China (see...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Islands | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

"Social Work" used to be regarded as a career for unmarriageable females, male fuddy-duddies and a few selfless souls like Jane Addams. Today professional social workers, headed by Harry Hopkins, are key people in Government's multiplex Relief-dispensing machine. When 3,000 of them met last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: Key People | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

War Secretary Hore-Belisha hurriedly dumped the case in the lap of the Prime Minister, who advised action by Britain's Attorney-General, Sir Donald Somervell. Early last week the Attorney-General informed Sandys that unless he revealed the source of his information, the Official Secrets Act would be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Questions & Answers | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

On the Mirror Winchell became increasingly staccato, informative and readable. He developed the Monday column (sub-headed "This Town of Ours," later "Man About Town") which made a specialty of entertaining and impudent eavesdropping ("Edna St. Vincent Millay, the love poem writer, just bought a new set of store teeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Newspaperman | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

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