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Word: indifferentism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mr. Gandhi has charged British employers with heartless, indifferent exploitation of their Indian employes. The Royal Commission stigmatized last week the "vicious system" whereby British employers do not hire & fire their Indian help themselves, but leave this to Indian foremen who extort the last anna of tribute from wretches who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: St. Gandhi Yessed | 7/13/1931 | See Source »

Greater than usual must have been Producer Ziegfeld's sense of relief to know this show was "over." He has a profit sharing contract with William Randolph Hearst, owner of the Ziegfeld theatre. Publisher Kobler of the Mirror is supposed to have a "slice" of the production; so is Ticket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Good Old Follies | 7/13/1931 | See Source »

You will like Ethel Waters singing "What's Keeping My Prince Charming?" You will encore the inimitable Black Berry Brothers' dancing. You will probably be indifferent to a colored woman named Valaida who dances, needlessly directs the band, sings "The Three Guitars" in Russian.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: May 18, 1931 | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

When the U. S. took Porto Rico from Spain in 1898 and made it an adjunct of the War Department, the island's population was suffering from four degrading centuries of misrule, neglect and exploitation. Quick crude efforts by hack administrators to '"Americanize" these people, part Spanish, part Negro, produced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Hot Sun & Linens | 3/30/1931 | See Source »

In TIME, Feb. 23, you say: "Devout Catholics fell to their knees at the radioed sound of the Pontiff's revered voice." I beg leave to differ. In the first place, I have known all sorts of Catholics: good, bad, ardent, and indifferent; American Catholics and Catholics of varied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Only a Voice | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

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