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Word: lettered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...letter to the CRIMSON received yesterday, Leavitt S. White '37, Chairman of the Student Council Committee on Tutoring Schools in 1937, praised the current attack on the Cambridge bureaus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alumnus Desires Faculty Action vs. Tutoring Schools | 5/4/1939 | See Source »

...Chairman Marvin Jones of the House Agriculture Committee President Roosevelt wrote a letter to sit hard upon a bill which would have upped the sugar quotas of tariff-protected mainland sugar producers by reducing the slice of the U. S. sugar market still left to the Philippines, Good Neighbor Cuba, and other foreign countries. The President damned the busy sugar lobby as "professionally dissatisfied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Hush Week | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...birthday greetings he customarily sends to all rulers. However, the U. S. President, who customarily felicitates only reigning monarchs on birthdays, sent none. Anyhow, since the Fuhrer had not answered the President's request for ten years' peace (TIME, April 24), he owed the President a letter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Aggrandizer's Anniversary | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...loaded at her dock in Le Havre with art treasures for New York's World's Fair, $15,000,000 in gold for American depositories, fire struck France's third largest ship again. Because the Sûreté Nationale had been warned by an anonymous letter writer that saboteurs were out to sink French Line ships, because fires have become too frequent on French ships to be accidental, Frenchmen felt positive that the burning of the Paris was the work of foreign agents who do not want her used for military purposes if and when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Jinx | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...Washington, D. C, Salesman Albert R. Clark owed $61.80 to a haberdasher when he lost his eyesight and his job. Shortly a credit association began to dun him by letter. Charging that the letters upped his blood pressure, hindering his recovery, Albert Clark sued for $10,000. The Court of Appeals overruled a motion of the defendants to throw out the suit, saying: "Neither beating a debtor nor purposely worrying him sick is a permissible way of collecting a debt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Joke | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

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