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Word: nothingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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In dealing with the current Recession, a less confident executive than. Franklin Roosevelt might have made the tactical blunder of adopting the attitude of most business that it was: 1) unforeseen and 2) thoroughly alarming. Equipped with a temperament to which crises are almost a necessity, Franklin Roosevelt did nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Alarms and Excursions | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

On his part the President seemed to have brushed over most of Mr. Willkie's arguments and suggestions in effort to convince the powerman that the utilities really had nothing to fear, arguing that Government projects now accounted for only 10% total U. S. power production nd that on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: General Feeling | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

The House. Waiting for their own Farm Bill last week, House members had nothing to do except to go on listening to oratory on subjects ranging from neutrality to Social Security. Liveliest altercation of the week was caused by Labor Committee Chairman Mary Norton's attempt to coax the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Slow Motion | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

"The republican regime has nothing to fear from the plotters' activities. Investigations will be pursued unremittingly by loyal servants of the State and the Republic. The guilty will be severely punished.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Monstrous Conspiracy | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

Nothing Sacred (David O. Selznick) is a spirited little comedy about a girl who is slowly dying of radium poisoning. It is a comedy because Hazel Flagg (Carole Lombard) and Dr. Downer (Charles Winninger), her Warsaw, Vt. physician, know that she isn't really dying at all. But by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 6, 1937 | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

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