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Word: maye (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...consider your article a libelous one but if you desire to square this misstatement and follow out an old-time saying that "it is better to send flowers to the living than to the dead," then send me a box of Princeton's orange colored chrysanthemums. Finally may I suggest that you give equal publicity to the "resurrection" as you did to the "demise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 6, 1939 | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...Falsehood it is. The French Government bought the land, gave it to the U. S., tax free and in perpetuity. The story may have arisen from the fact that some U. S. soldiers died in France long after the end of the war, were buried privately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 6, 1939 | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Last week President Roosevelt also: > Discussed the refugee problem with Refugee Experts Myron Taylor, Paul van Zeeland, former Belgian Premier, reportedly urged surveys based on the possibility that 10,000,000 to 20,000,000 persons may be deprived of homes and countries by the war. > Sent a warm message to Turkey's President Ismet Inönü on modern Turkey's 16th anniversary celebration. > Rapped the work of the Foreign Bondholders Protective Council, Inc., in its attempt to adjust Latin-American defaulted bonds held by U. S. investors, refused to comment on whether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Better Natured | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Bill. The Pittman Bill, in final Senate form, repealed the controversial arms embargo. But the bill did many other things of possibly greater significance. It provided, following proclamation of a state of war either by the President or Congress, that thereafter no U. S. citizen may travel on the ships of any belligerent named; that no U. S. ship may carry passengers or goods to any belligerent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Debate's End | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Thereafter no belligerent may buy arms in the U. S. without paying cash on the barrelhead. No belligerent may buy other materials until title has been transferred abroad. But the Senate left a large credit loophole in its ban of the purchase or sale of belligerent securities by U. S. citizens. It provided that this ban did not apply to "renewal or adjustment'' of existing debts -which would permit further vast credit extensions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Debate's End | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

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