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Word: ifs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last fortnight San Antonio's new Mayor Maury Maverick solemnly advised a group of local respectables that they were violating the law by banqueting out-of-doors. If he and they could break the law, Maury Maverick went on to say, why not let the Hay Market Mexicans do...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: Queens Back | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

James Monroe Smith was dean of the College of Education at Southwestern Louisiana Institute at Lafayette when Huey snatched him to Baton Rouge. Tall, bald, Dr. Smith shaped into an ideal academic puppet. Huey began to spend $13,500,000 on L. S. U. for sumptuous buildings, a monster swimming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: Jimmy the Stooge | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

Next thing Louisiana knew, Dr. & Mrs. Smith had turned up at Brockville, Ont., and State and local authorities were tumbling over themselves for the glory of bringing back the fugitives. Dr. Smith in his hey-heyday had bought a $20,000 plane wherein to lug promising athletes to L. S...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: Jimmy the Stooge | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

If Paul McNutt is on a limb, it is not his friends' fault. It is Franklin Roosevelt's-or McNutt's own for trying to block Roosevelt at Chicago in 1932. Ever since then Paul McNutt has been polite to the New Deal, but also ever since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: White-Haired Boy | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

Assets of Paul McNutt for the Presidency begin with his physical appearance and vigor. He is handsome to a Hollywood degree. Women flock to see him. He has a Texas wife (Kathleen Timolat of San Antonio), as wise as she is charming, and a good-looking, 18-year-old daughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: White-Haired Boy | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

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