Search Details

Word: knowed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Depression I pulled him into public service (State Relief, NRA, NEC, Housing). A Republican by family precept, he had long been a friend of Franklin Roosevelt's Uncle Frederic Delano, in the early New Deal years came to know and admire the President. So he was not astounded when onetime NEC Director Frank Walker met him in the lobby of Washington's Hotel Mayflower shortly after the 1936 elections, suggested he visit the White House next day. He was sworn in as Assistant Secretary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATIONAL DEFENSE: Strong Arm | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...joined the Communist Party. . . . [But] I do not consider myself a Communist because I am not paying dues to the Communist Party. I do not know whether we shall ever have a Communistic system in the United States. I have read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: Redbug-on-a-Slide | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...know what is going to happen. I do not know how long I am going to live. If I knew when I was going to die I would get me about four women and have a hell of a time before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: Redbug-on-a-Slide | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...days of inattention, looking for aid. Correspondents roaming through the refugee region sent back countless vignettes of human suffering: one crazed refugee, his arm blown off by an air raid, carrying his baby under his good arm, was looking for his wife and remaining children, who he did not know had been killed in the same air raid; new born babies nestling beside new born lambs; soldiers and civilians sleeping among flocks of sheep for warmth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Last Retreat | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

Replied Defendant Barriobero: "I am an old man and I know my time is near. I may have been guilty of common crimes, but I am not guilty of capital crimes. If I took sums of money through fines, it was to keep up revolutionary appearances among my comrades. I am not an anarchist. I am a radical anticlerical Freemason...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Judge's Trial | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

Previous | 109 | 110 | 111 | 112 | 113 | 114 | 115 | 116 | 117 | 118 | 119 | 120 | 121 | 122 | 123 | 124 | 125 | 126 | 127 | 128 | 129 | Next