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Word: morely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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What made this retort timely was that Willie Bioff had just tied Hollywood producers into knots. On behalf of 1,900* A. F. of L. studio workers, Tsar Bioff had ordered the companies to up wages 10% ($360,000 a year). Likely to be demanded later if he got this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Sweet Willie | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

Chrysler's chunky President Kaufman Thuma Keller stayed away from most of the conferences in Detroit last week. He could not abide the taunts of U.A.W.'s keg-headed Richard Frankensteen, who continually brings up the story that back in the bad old non-union days, Chrysler planted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Fourth Quarter | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

> Crooning Flour Salesman W. Lee O'Daniel was elected Governor of Texas in 1938 on a promise of $30-a-month pensions. Texans last week cast up accounts, noted that after a year's fiddling and finagling, "Pappy" O'Daniel had sliced the average $8-a-month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Wagon Wheels | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

Settled in a strange, silly, democratic land, what could Fritz Kuhn do to show his devotion? With great energy and great devotion but not with great success, he did what he could: he collected $2,300 for Reich relief, had a Golden Book signed by 6,000 loyal U. S...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Trouble | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

He was called away to Philadelphia on an investigation on five minutes' notice. "They are terrible after me," wrote Fritz. "I am the public anemi No. 1." When he spoke in Schenectady there was more trouble: the Jews and the C. I. O. and the Communists held a meeting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Trouble | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

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