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Word: overent (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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In your "Background for War" issue, p. 28, you say "Speculator Baruch himself headed the War Industries Board which fixed the prices." Whatever you may call me, that I or the board over which I presided fixed the prices is not true.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 16, 1939 | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

Anent your statement ". . . his [Lindbergh's] father, who died in 1933" [TIME, Sept. 25], I well remember that Charles Jr., an up-and-coming aviator, flew over the Lindbergh homestead and dropped his father's ashes several years before he made his well known solo flight to Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 16, 1939 | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

*Like Kosciuszko, Polish adjutant to General Washington who fought devoutly for an alien cause, Pulaski fought as a Brigadier-General in the American Revolution. He was killed at Savannah in 1779, and is memorialized by a fine equestrian statue in bronze in Washington and by a titanic $21,000,000...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Poland Is Not Yet Lost | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

Observers could explain the Administration's legislative Blitzkrieg only thus: 1) the U. S. public found out at once that both sides wanted the same thing-i. e., that the U. S. stay out of war-and were arguing only over one minor, technical phase of the method; 2...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: Question Marks | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

The debate that counts, in either house of Congress, comes when a bill is being amended. Then legislators are working spontaneously with their wits and tongues to shape and perfect legislation. Full-dress debate, such as last week's in the Senate, is almost as empty of reality as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: Question Marks | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

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