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Word: offs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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For a moment, the crowd of 130 newsmen thought they had something. What did he mean by the word "surrender?" He meant exactly what he said, replied the President crisply. The war of nerves is slacking off very decidedly, the President said: that's just as plain as it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Generations of Peace | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

He announced that the President had neither known nor approved of any "assistance" he might have given business firms. He denied ever helping Five-Percenter James V. Hunt, or even having business connections with his good friend, Fixer John Maragon, who had made a good thing out of his White...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: Friendship & Nothing More | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

Next day in Austria, Anatoly Barsov was driven to the Urfahrer Bridge spanning the Danube at Linz. A U.S. captain asked him for the last time whether he was sure he wanted to be turned over to the Russians. Barsov shrugged indifferently, shook his head, as he went off to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFUGEES: Flight from Freedom | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

"Worried by a sales slump which laid off 38 workers, the retail clerks union in John Wanamaker's New York store took an unusual step; it shrewdly decided to woo the public instead of damning the management. Union members appropriated $6,000 for newspaper advertisements and mail circulars to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Helping the Boss | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

Truman Democrats by his blunt attacks on the socialistic tendencies of the Fair Deal. He stood for a conservative-liberal philosophy which could support certain federal grants for social welfare, but opposed any further spread of federal power or of the welfare state. On these issues the G.O.P. had a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mr. Republican Goes to Ohio | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

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