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Word: lessers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...accomplish this tremendous plan, Franklin Roosevelt could no longer keep his attention focused on lesser domestic affairs. His motto had always been: first things first. Wendell Willkie had cajnpaigned honestly for things Americans had always believed in: liberation of free enterprise from Government controls; relief of profits from tax burdens (especially punitive taxes); and a steady restriction of the sphere of Government activity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POST-ELECTION: To the Lighthouse | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

...worthy of their jobs, they can command far larger salaries in private life than the Government's $15,000 a year. No President can order a man of such a type to do anything: he must convince and persuade him. And so on down the line, with lesser civil servants, with the Senate, the House, the States. And always, behind everything, the press and finally, the people. All must be persuaded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POST-ELECTION: To the Lighthouse | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

Lewis for Willkie had for days been the theme of prophetic headlines. About the only people who could not yet believe that Lewis would come out for Willkie were lesser C. I. O. leaders. More than any other man, except Franklin Roosevelt himself, John Lewis had built up the faith of his membership in the President. In union halls, by home radios, they now waited to hear a faint, damning kiss for Willkie, or else John Lewis echoing the President's "A plague o' both your houses!" They heard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Lewis to His Countrymen | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

...Lowland and ends in Upper Silesia. On it or close to it are strewn the maroon areas of mining districts and the red areas of manufacturing-the English Midlands, South Wales, northern France, Belgium's Sambre-Meuse Valley, Holland's Limburg, the Saar, the Ruhr, middle Germany. Lesser mining and manufacturing areas are scattered in other quarters of Europe but neither in area nor in productive capacity are they of comparable significance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Strategic Map: Europe's Sinews of War | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

Legitimate children of American Defense, Harvard Group exist most prominently at Dartmouth and Tufts in the East; Claremont, which includes several lesser institutions, on the Pacific coast; and at Duke in the South. At all these places the feeling among the faculty is in general support of the beliefs favored by our committee and there is considerable momentum in the movements...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACULTY DEFENSE GROUP IS STYMIED IN ORGANIZING ITS WESTERN AFFILIATES | 10/22/1940 | See Source »

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