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Word: justness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Calm to the point of boredom was the ceremony of the signing. It was 12:04 p.m. when President Roosevelt, grasping an inexpensive black & tan fountain pen, affixed his signature to the joint resolution. Next minute, using another pen just like it, he signed proclamations defining combat areas (see p...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Home Again | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

Ignoring Wendell Willkie, Chairman Dies applied himself to the wobbly reputation of C. I. O.'s National Maritime Union. A burly, tattooed, gap-toothed ex-Communist and ousted union official, William C. McCuistion, testified that 28 N. M. U. officers (including President Joe Curran) were Communists, that 93% of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: Hero's Week | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

In 1935 Communists the world over, including those in the U. S., took a raincheck on revolution. Object: by joining a "united front" for capitalist democracy, to make the democracies allies of Soviet Russia against Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany and Imperialist Japan. Last week world Communists, including those in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: Veil Torn | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

This very quality of indecision was just the reason why Nobuyuki Abe was chosen: he would be pliable. But those who chose him did not realize that under him the whole Government would degenerate into machinery for vacillation. Since U. S. Ambassador Joseph Clark Grew gave Japan a piece of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Waver Week | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

Most interesting to the 14 passengers on the inaugural flight was a stop they made, in a cut in the Burma jungle just outside the China border. There, miles from civilization of any sort, they found a community of 15 U. S. experts, their families, nearly 1,000 Chinese workers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: New Route, New Factory | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

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