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Word: ifs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like the majority of U. S. oyster-chewers, Secretary of the Interior Harold lakes has scrupulously eschewed oysters in R-less months. But last week, with the Fisheries Bureau, which believes in year-round oyster-eating, transferred to his department, he let it be known (to the deep satisfaction of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 24, 1939 | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

Giorgione, Titian, Tintoretto, et al. If pressed to name his favorite Uncle Sam will smile; he doted on all of them, but might admit that Duccio di Buoninsegna's The Calling of St. Peter and St. Andrew (purchased for $250,000 through Lord Duveen four years ago from the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Uncle Sam to Uncle Sam | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

"The headline is, of course, wholly false; so is the story. . . . The United Press has been guilty of a falsification of the actual facts. If called upon to give the source of the information, they will decline to give it. ... The fact remains that the story is contrary to every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: President & Press | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

But in spite of Paul Smith's innovations, his brass, and his feverish activity (he will take over any job on the paper, from managing editor to leg man), the morning Chronicle still has the smallest circulation in San Francisco (104,893), carries the largest staff (wags say that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Smart Squirt | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

Three years of teaching school netted him $90, with which he started a weekly newspaper. When it folded, he sold books on the road for three more years, went to Kansas City, studied law, was admitted lo the bar. He quit the law because all the lawyers he saw were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: End of Old Pitch | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

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