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Word: lather (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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While the Senate Finance Committee was sweating over the 1932 Revenue Act to up taxes and balance the Budget, the House of Representatives last week worked itself into a lather of revolt on legislation to cut government costs for the same purpose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXATION: Still in the Hole | 5/9/1932 | See Source »

...French journalists, whose deliberately provocative and skillfully insinuated ideas are apt to upset any Conference, got the statesmen at Geneva into a lather by "announcing" the "un-offcial suggestion"' from "high sources" that Japan be entrusted by the League with a mandate over Manchuria. Such journalistic ideas sometimes become facts. But the French press-playboys were so delighted with their furore that they next announced: "Japan is going to be given a mandate over all China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Arms for Disarmament | 2/15/1932 | See Source »

...dark. Wall Street attempted to take over-with the predictable result that last week the bankruptcy became official. A loss of about $3,000,000 was disclosed. So Lee Shubert, who always keeps a large red apple on his desk, insists that barbers shave him with glycerine instead of lather, was put back in charge of his own company, this time as a receiver. The other receiver is Irving Trust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Lee & Jake-and Herman | 11/2/1931 | See Source »

...upper west side flat two young criminals had been cornered with the aid of tips by one of their girl friends and a taxi driver. They were undersized Francis Crowley, 19year-old lather, and Rudolph Duringer, 220-lb. truck driver. Duringer confessed that he had killed a red-headed dance hall hostess in a moment of drunken jealousy. Crowley, wanted for auto stealing and robbery, had shot down a Long Island policeman who approached while he was parked with his girl in a dark lane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Rat Hunters | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

...disability as a result of the War and should thus be entitled to compensation. Not satisfied with this 90 million dollar per year liberality by the U. S., Mississippi's Congressman Rankin proposed that the presumption date be advanced to Jan. 1, 1930, whipped the House into a lather of sentimental excitement about War veterans, got his proposal adopted by a vote of 324-49 after Mr. Johnson, outraged, asked that his name be removed from the measure. Congressman Wood pointed out that under this bill a veteran, hale and hearty, could contract gout on Dec. 31, 1929, blame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: Real Alarm | 5/5/1930 | See Source »

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