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Word: jr (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...positive, bluff, solid man, oddly inconsistent with the cold background of his Treasury office-icy-eyed portraits of former Secretaries, ancient shiny red-plush drapes, a cool white-marble mantel-arrived every morning last week at 7 a.m. (noon in London) to telephone his boss, Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. in Finland, Sweden, Norway; to telephone the men in London who watch the English end of the tripartite monetary agreement. Mr. Hanes had $2,000,000,000 worth of stabilization funds to repulse panicky raids on the franc, pound, dollar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CABINET: Perfect Crisis | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

California has this year the biggest rush of tourists in its history, has taken from them at least $100,000,000 of new business. For this a quiet, gangling Texan named Clyde Milner Vandeburg (32), director of Fair promotion, and his assistant, beaming Crompton Bangs Jr. (29), former G-Man are largely responsible. Two years ago Promoter Vandeburg talked Fair managers into selling their Big Show rs a peg on which to hang a national campaign of travel to eleven far-western States instead of merely plugging San Francisco. To tie the westward movement into a national travel merry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Regilded Gate | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

Joel B. Hayden Jr., 17, of Hudson; Western Reserve Academy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Opens Portals to 1000 Incoming Men As Start of 304th Academic Session Approaches | 9/1/1939 | See Source »

George W. Hibbert Jr., 17, of Toledo; Culver (Ind.) Military Academy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Opens Portals to 1000 Incoming Men As Start of 304th Academic Session Approaches | 9/1/1939 | See Source »

Robert C. Martin Jr., 18, of Dayton; Glenville High School, Cleveland...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Opens Portals to 1000 Incoming Men As Start of 304th Academic Session Approaches | 9/1/1939 | See Source »

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