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Word: nones (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...view, may I mention that if your almost savage criticisms should have any effect on her career, you would be robbing all the little girls of the one character they really can enjoy. There are pictures for adults and boys galore-but for little girls there are practically none, save Shirley Temple's and Walt Disney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 9, 1938 | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

Last week one of the bypaths along the proletarian road wound to a temporary terminus in the Eagles Club Auditorium at Kenosha, Wis. Assembled there, in a confused and earnest clot, were 150 delegates to the 21st national convention of the Socialist Party. Among them few were more confused, none was more earnest than their three-time candidate for the Presidency of the U. S., grey Norman Thomas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Peasoup | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

...primary, the winning candidate must poll as many votes as all his opponents put together or face a runoff. Best guess appeared to be that Pepper would be high man in the first primary, with Sholtz and Wilcox running neck and neck for second place. If, as is likely, none of the three has the requisite majority, Florida voters will not know for sure who will succeed Claude Pepper until the runoff election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLORIDA: Pepper v. Sholtz v. Wilcox | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

During the Revolutionary War one Clement Corbin fought with the Connecticut Regulars. Mr. Corbin might have become a famed hero, a traitor or a general. He did none of the three and was ignored by U. S. history until last week when, after 150 years, the ultimate result of his pugnacity finally became apparent in Washington, D. C. It was that his great-great-granddaughter, Mrs. Henry Martyn Robert Jr. of Annapolis, Md. was elected President General of the Daughters of the American Revolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Continental Congress | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

...military secrets are really kept secret in peacetime but none is likely to be revealed at a public parade witnessed by foreign military attachés and foreign correspondents. Displayed for the first time in public, however, were nine heavy tanks of new design, from 18 to 25 tons in weight, varying widely in traction and armament. Still lighter than the 50-ton tanks used by Russians and French in Leftist Spain, heavier than the Italian and German affairs of about ten tons used in Rightist Spain, these new experimental tanks were apparently designed to meet the military criticism that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Genius Hitler | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

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