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Word: ifs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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>Senator Hatch of New Mexico called on Mr. Roosevelt to discuss with him, section by section, the new "Act to prevent pernicious political activities" which would hamstring the Roosevelt national political machine as well as take politics out of Relief (TIME, July 31). After their talk, Mr. Roosevelt, taking care...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Face Saved | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

"We would be in a hell of a fix if we had followed Mr. Chamberlain. We would be in the same fix we were in as a result of the Stimson incident [1932] when he and Sir John Simon endeavored to halt Japan's early conquest of North China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Dead Hare, Weeping Fox | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

But very shortly Senator Johnson's chortle died in his throat. Secretary of State Hull emerged from a conference with President Roosevelt to announce, in diplomatic language as placid as its true import was severe, that the U. S. would now follow Britain's gesture of appeasement with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Dead Hare, Weeping Fox | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

William S. Knudsen is a big-boned, 60-year-old Danish-American who likes to make motorcars and more motorcars. If anything interferes with this procedure he gets uneasy, at times even uses words he learned in 1900 when, as a raw immigrant, he was a shipyard's reamer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Dress Rehearsal | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

In Road To Empire Historian Pratt, in his most coaxing mood, adds 346 more pages to the ten thousand books on Napoleon. This one retells the Corsican's career from corporal to coup d'état. Since the story of Napoleon Bonaparte is to history what Ulysses and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Corporal to Coup d'État | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

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