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Word: lets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chief Executive, Franklin Roosevelt let it be intimated at the White House that, with business improving, higher taxes might not be needed to "balance the Budget by 1941"-a point of view which cynics thought might be revised after election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Roosevelt Week: Nov. 7, 1938 | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

...let Secretary of State Hull send a stiff note to Japan warning that U. S. trade in conquered China must not be impaired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Roosevelt Week: Nov. 7, 1938 | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

...Gadola of Flint, whose contempt citations against General Motors strikers were ignored at the Governor's order in 1937, testified with much heat. Whereupon Representative Harold G. Mosier of Ohio, who was defeated by C. I. O. pressure in the recent Democratic primary, addressed the judge: ''Let's get this matter straight. Just to show there was no politics in it, Governor Murphy is a Democrat and you are a Democrat.'' "I am not," cried Judge Gadola. "I am a Republican! Until this New Deal coattail parade started, there wasn't a Democratic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: Dies and Duty | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

...says the News, referring to the off-criticized mongrel variety of Yale's architecture. "Grimly we recognize the implausibility of a functional building in the midst of Gothic-Georgian-Renaissance-Egyptian settings, but if we must have our new college unit in one of these outmoded and clumsy styles, let us at least have it all of one piece...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Plans New 10th Unit in College Plan; Fight Over Architecture Looms | 11/4/1938 | See Source »

...Doesn't anything ever happen around here?" queried "Sis," a baby-blue-eyed blonde with a delightful Southern accent. When informed of the riots, Plan E controversy, and Hicks scandal, she squealed, "Oh, let's go to a riot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chorines Visiting in Cambridge Agree Hitch-Hiking is Better in New Haven | 11/1/1938 | See Source »

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