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Word: means (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sure Roosevelt vetoed the Bonus bill and my Congressman voted against it. But I mean to vote for that same Congressman on Sept. "9 and for Mr. Roosevelt in November...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 14, 1936 | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

Whose Constitution?, by Henry A. Wallace, in which the Secretary of Agriculture explains why he thinks that that document must mean that the New Deal is entitled to do what its philosophy calls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Battle of Booklets | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

...have the King's approval for all these plans," added Dictator Metaxas-by which he was assumed to mean the approval of King George II of Greece, a most intimate friend of Britain's late King George V, and an attentive host to King Edward VIII...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Metaxas Dictates | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

Nevertheless, said Harvardman Lewis Gannett, Class of 1913 and book reviewer for the New York Herald Tribune: "A rough check of my own class disclosed a surprisingly close parallel. . . . Can it be that the rise of the father, in American life, tends to mean the decline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Class of 1911 | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

...authentic Americana, detailing what led to or what followed some 30 purchases j of articles in them. A thin thread of narrative holds the episodes of Catalogue together, but most of the book is given over to candid, unlovely but often grimly humorous portraits of the natives-Spike, the mean taxidriver; Shannon, the old postmaster, who is almost the only humane figure in the lot; the unfaithful bride, whose lover is in terror of her husband's shotgun; old Double S. Winston, the banker, who puts down extravagant plans for a sewer system; a rich Indian named Eagle Catoosa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mail Order Stuff | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

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