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Word: lifes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Australian Bush Fire Relief Fund the Duke of Windsor sent ?10 and a sympathetic thought: "Life is hard enough in these times without the added tribulation of bush fires...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 27, 1939 | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

...foils foul villains everywhere To sell the staff of life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Hi-Yo Bond! | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

...behalf of 36 radio sponsors, 29 of them bakers of bread, cake and biscuits, the Lone Ranger rides his imaginary mount, Silver, over a vast radio range of 129 stations, including one in Honolulu and one in Sydney, Australia. In real life he is Earl Crasser of Detroit. The popular belief is that Silver was named for Gordon Baking Co.'s Silvercup Bread, the Lone Ranger's leading sponsor from his start over five years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Hi-Yo Bond! | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

...fortnight ago was entertained by SEC Chairman William O. Douglas' smart display of the insurance industry's enormous power, last week heard Bill Douglas try to prove that insurance directors use their influence to swing business their own way. Evidence: 1) while a director of New York Life, Alfred E. Smith solicited fuel oil contracts for certain of its properties; 2) Mutual Life's deposit at Bankers Trust Co. jumped from $150,000 to $1,500,000 when Bankers Trust's President S. Sloan Colt became a director; 3) the Chicago law firm of Mitchell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOVERNMENT: Curtain | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

Rebuttal to that testimony came from New York Life's Chairman Thomas A. Buckner, whose directors include RCA's chairman and R. H. Macy's president. "If we carried out your theory to its logical conclusion," observed Mr. Buckner, "we couldn't send a radiogram or buy a desk at Macy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOVERNMENT: Curtain | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

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