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Word: nothingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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After Senator Van Nuys opposed President Roosevelt's Supreme Court plan last year, he was singled out as Victim No. 1 for the great purge of the Democratic Party. Franklin Roosevelt said nothing publicly, but Mr. McNutt's obedient satellite, Governor Maurice Clifford Townsend of Indiana, announced it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIANA: Advanced Astrology | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

Although the Government nine months ago decreed a 10% to 20% raise in wages, food prices have skyrocketed out of proportion. The ''Battle of the Grain," while it substantially upped production, has benefited the large landowners who could make use of Government cultivation aids. These landowners annually sell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Harvest and Headaches | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

Out of a knot of sidewalk spectators bustled a puritanical gaffer. He grabbed Lady Godiva's wrist, clawed at her dangling bare leg: "Down with this sacrilege; wearing nothing but a bathing suit! This is supposed to be a God-fearing country." Lady Godiva's father, marching beside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Prissy Peter | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

Now that there is reason to believe Depression II has turned the corner, nothing is of more importance to business than the Government's drive to reshape the antitrust laws. Last week, as the Monopoly Investigation sharpened its pencils and Big Business received a thumping endorsement from the Brookings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Government's Week: Jul. 18, 1938 | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

But for all the local color he discovered, Author Daniels finished his trip disturbed, thoughtful, none too optimistic. The Civil War caused suffering in the South, he admits, but its chief injury was that it gave southerners an excuse for doing nothing. Despite lynchings,* he believes that Negroes and whites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cold-Drink Philosophy | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

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