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Word: lot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hazard No. 3, apparently the least troublesome of the lot, was the one that caused calm Secretary Hull to speak his mind more briskly than usual. In the Washington Merry-Go-Round (circ. 13,500,000) last week appeared a story to the effect that Secretary Hull and his "career boys" had been violating the neutrality law by allowing shipments of arms to Germany. Reason: The Neutrality Act prohibits arms shipments "in violation of a treaty" and the 1921 peace treaty specifically prohibits "importation into Germany of arms, munitions and war materials." That day, Columnist Drew Pearson, co-author...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Cornfield Lawyers | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...vote. Newton Hawkins asked for a recount, in which William Voisine's margin was increased to ten. Newton Hawkins took it to the Michigan Supreme Court. Last month the Supreme Court Justices found the election a draw, ordered the two politicians to decide the issue by lot. Last week they pulled slips out of a hat. Newton Hawkins got the slip lettered ELECTED. Promptly he promised to start suit for the $2,000 salary William Voisine drew while he was illegally president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Ecorse Recourse | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...allows maximum three year licenses. The Commission makes them subject to a renewal petition by the broadcaster every six months. Last year, with Republican Senator White of Maine and others baying that a sharp political odor was arising from the FCC, President Roosevelt-to whom radio means a lot-sent over his acute and large-eared little trouble shooter, 65-year-old Frank Ramsay McNinch, to be the Commission's chairman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: QRX | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...certainly well qualified to make a talk. Sally has seen a lot of the world and vice versa...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 5/13/1938 | See Source »

Rumors from Boston say that a lot of fathers decided to drop in on the old campus during her visit to see how the boys were applying themselves to their studies. -Walter O'Keefe in the N. Y. World-Telegram...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 5/13/1938 | See Source »

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