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Word: overent (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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This son of a mail-carrier father, who went off to college with a $5 bill in his pocket, who sings There's a Gold Mine in the Sky and Mother Machree on campaign platforms, would have been jobless on Dec. 12, if he had not inherited Senator Logan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Happy Man | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

His New York chums waged war. At a Manhattan County committee meeting of the party, a divisional director of Mr. Quill's union leaped to the platform, with a pack of Communist sympathizers, took over the proceedings. The lights flashed off, on, off again. Amid the hullabaloo the Quillsters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Red Lights Out | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

Barred from a scheduled visit to the birthplace of Frances Willard* because the present occupants were quarantined with mumps, the delegates regaled themselves with such intricate concoctions as "Mug o' Joy," "Blackbird Giggles," "Sawdust Specials" (innocuous potions designed to show the superiority of nonalcoholic drinks over alcoholic ones), witnessed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Mumps, Hops | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

It was the beginning of a national emergency, perhaps the greatest since the period when an Illinois lawyer named Abraham Lincoln, brooding over a political speech, decided to let the phrase, "a house divided against itself cannot stand," remain in the text. Off in the unknown future lay a sequence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Pursuit of Happiness | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

>Month of October is also the month of Hospital drives, Community Chest drives. For the U. S.'s No. 1 charitarian rich man, John D. Rockefeller Jr., it was a busy week, with not only charity but a ceremony attendant on the presentation by the French Government of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Pursuit of Happiness | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

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