Word: overlies
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Light on Farms Sirs: In TIME, Aug. 14 is a letter from Mr. R. Wallace Brewster of Uniontown, Pa. in which the writer says, "In our country, where many of electricity's greatest uses have been invented . . . . only one-fifth of the farms are electrified. Compared with the so...
The telephone in Franklin Roosevelt's bedroom at the White House rang at 2:50 a. m. on the first day of September. In more ways than one it was a ghastly hour, but the operators knew they must ring. Ambassador Bill Bullitt was calling from Paris. He had...
Senator Borah, vacationing at Poland Spring, Me., defended his position himself: "We cannot enter the struggle in part and stay out in part. Our boys would follow our guns into the trenches." >Franklin Roosevelt chose to issue a General Proclamation of Neutrality. Under the Neutrality Act he had to embargo...
But no sugar-scoop coat or high hat clothed Lord Lothian. To the confusion of protocol, he wore a black pin-stripe business suit, a loosely knotted dark tie, black bump-toed shoes, glasses with light grey plastic rims, a grey Homburg hat. He pushed open the right-hand door...
For towering Sir Ronald Lindsay was cold and haughty as only a really shy person can be. Since 1930 he held no single press conference until the pressure of the approaching visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth forced him to undergo what he looked on as a most...