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Word: lefts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week President Roosevelt left Washington for Hyde Park in time for the first snow of the season. Through sleet and rain he drove to church, stayed to preside as senior warden at a vestryman's meeting. Home to Uvalde on the windswept Texas plains went Vice President John Nance Garner, to a State that has been fussing about a proposed special session of its Legislature, and an appalling murder down at Comanche.* Back to his old Kentucky home (Paducah) went Senate Leader Alben Barkley...

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

Recently Chicago's first mixed jury in Federal court-six men, six women, five of them members of the League of Women Voters-sat to hear a suit over a will of Attorney Samuel J. Howe, which cut off his son and left his $70,000 estate to Northwestern University. Son Willard C. Howe contested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: No Reflection | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...miners.' It was difficult for me to believe that anyone could so misunderstand a situation. 'For God's sake tell Mr. Rockefeller to leave here at once,' I replied, 'he may be killed, if these men find out he is here.' " Mr. Rockefeller left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Bannerless Man | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...hatching plots to notice that Son Carol was developing a mind of his own. She had a first glimpse of Carol's stubbornness at the Court of the Tsar. She got a big dose of it when, in World War I, the young Prince, serving as a Colonel, left his regiment, journeyed to Odessa, Russia, and there, after marrying 22-year-old Zizi Lambrino, the dashing daughter of a Rumanian officer, renounced all his rights to the throne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Playboy into Statesman | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

This castor-oil operation may, as the Italian press claimed, merely have removed faithful servants so that other faithful servants might have their hour. But foreign commentators could not help noticing an obvious common denominator: the important purgees were strongly pro-Axis. Only ministers left were Foreign Minister Count Ciano, popular Minister of Justice Dino Grandi, Premier Mussolini himself (War, Navy, Air, Interior), and three others-the neutrality bloc. Italy, it seemed, wanted no entangling alliances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Changes | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

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