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Word: opener (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...counts, the variety of the lectures and importance of the lecturers, these open and closed addresses deserve greater attention. There must be one thing interesting in every one or they have no raison d'etre. If the student body has the gumption to read the Crimson notice column and the House posters, the lectures will receive the proper support...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BURIED TREASURE | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

...Dealers on the council, in the last two Presidential campaigns served Franklin Roosevelt on the Democratic Labor Committee. As a result of his efforts last week, President Green was noticeably less militant than at the start of the convention. Invited to walk through A.F. of L.'s "open door" were C.I.O. textile, automobile, garment and oil unions. Cried Bill Green to them: "The key has been thrown away and we are singing that happy refrain, 'Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Happy Refrain | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

...Herlands office that he had ''paid plenty" to keep out of jail in Brooklyn. District Attorney Geoghan said he had been at liberty as a stool pigeon, promptly clapped him back behind bars. This was the signal for Commissioner Herlands to bring his fight into the open, which he did by blanketing Brooklyn with 1,402 subpoenas for financial records and bank accounts, to expose the workings of the Geoghan office since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Over the Bridge | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

...There the last vanguard of pioneers halted and the rearguard of sick, halt, lame, blind, crooked and crazy have caught up. It is a home of saints and scoundrels, heroines and houris. There since Depression I has grown up a strange society in which men born in the great open spaces and hardshells with their feet two generations planted were artificially mixed with sunkist visitors and moonstruck social freaks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOCIAL SECURITY: Men Under the Moon | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

...Generalissimo's few public appearances...one of his most courageous gestures....Throngs composed of clerks, laborers, students and others who have been mobilized to assist in the defense of Hankow stood silent and awed as the Generalissimo and his wife drove by in an open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Midnight Invasion | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

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