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Word: occasional (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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¶ On his weekend cruise with Secretary Ickes, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Josephine Roche, Theodore F. Green, erudite freshman Senator from Rhode Island, and Governor Murphy, Franklin Roosevelt sailed down to Quantico, Va., where he attended to one international affair by broadcasting to France on the occasion of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: All Season Sport | 8/9/1937 | See Source »

Wound up in Zurich this week was a ten-day international aviation meet which offered a fine chance to the nations of Europe to show how they were getting along with human and mechanical preparations for the ''War in the Air." Military planes and pilots held the stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Zurich Meet | 8/9/1937 | See Source »

Most hair-raising escape from death was that of Germany's baldish, grinning Major-General Ernst Udet, Germany's No. 1 stunt flier whose stunts include flicking a handkerchief off the ground with his wingtip and who apparently bears a charmed life. After the War, in which he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Zurich Meet | 8/9/1937 | See Source »

¶ Half the adult deaf-mutes of the U. S. cannot get work. Experience proves them specially capable as farmers, bookbinders, cabinetmakers, carpenters, compositors, Linotype operators, typesetters, electrotypers, seamstresses, milliners, typists, bookkeepers, accountants, machinists, painters, shoemakers, tailors. Testified deaf President Kenner: "As an employer, for the past 20 years, [I...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Discontented Mutes | 8/9/1937 | See Source »

In Pelham. N. Y.. the street car which was the original of Cartoonist Fontaine Fox's famed Toonerville Trolley made its last trip. For the lugubrious occasion Pelham became Toonerville. Pelham residents whom Cartoonist Fox caricatures in Toonerville Folks acted their parts-Conductor Dave Campion (The Skipper). stopped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 9, 1937 | 8/9/1937 | See Source »

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