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Word: ifs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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. . . my father, writing to me from Southwestern China, has in custody a white girl, unable to speak a word of English but aware that she is the daughter of an American father and a Russian mother. For nearly 20 years she has been a slave, bought and sold among various...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 5, 1939 | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

I still have something like a year to go before my subscription runs out. If you are any kind of sports I stump you to publish this letter in your Letters page with your 'Ultrasmart" comments, and send me that issue of TIME. You can then discontinue sending me...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 5, 1939 | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

In TIME, May 8, under People you noted that General Motors' president had presented Princess Ingrid of Denmark with a pair of synthetic silk stockings. Since the Japanese sacked Nanking in 1937, I have worn no silk at all-and the substituted lisle & rayon hosiery are hateful to me...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 5, 1939 | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

Having strangled the plans of John Hanes and Henry Morgenthau to revise corporation taxes this year (TIME, May 22), Franklin Roosevelt last week executed a fast fadeaway which saved the faces (and possibly the resignations) of Messrs. Hanes and Morgenthau. The face-saving compromise (influenced in part by press and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Henny-Penny's Inning | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

Second feature and second of the "Blondie" sagas is "Blondie Meets the Ross." From the first of the series, it looked as if Hollywood had found another "Hardy Family" goldmine. But the ore has proved to be pretty weak.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 6/2/1939 | See Source »

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