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Word: overlies (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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One afternoon last week, in the rectory of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Claire and Ivan were finally married in a swirl of cream satin, rolling organ music, popping flashbulbs and happy smiles. When that ceremony was done, the newlyweds trooped down to Manhattan's Russian Orthodox Cathedral, there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Over the Hurdle | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

After thinking over President Truman's Point Four program for backward nations, New York Stock Exchange President Emil Schram spotted a big flaw in the idea. Point Four would wrap a protective government guarantee around private funds invested outside the U.S. What irked Schram was that there was no...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTMENT: Point Five | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

A former RFC director and onetime South Carolina banker, Sam Husbands, in the words of his onetime boss Jesse Jones, "knows more about banks than any man in the U.S." He also knows a lot about what goes on in Washington. FRB is backing a bill in Congress which would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: Shrewd Coincidence | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

Died. George Clinton Densmore Odell, 83, onetime Columbia University professor of dramatic literature (he retired in 1939), compiler (since 1920) of a monumental (15 volumes, over 5,000,000 words) Annals of the New York Stage, a chronicle of the theater from 1750 through 1894; in Manhattan. He had planned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 24, 1949 | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

"Let Them Stew." While fans tried to adjust to the latest milestone of the little girl who grew up so fast, the gossips tried to piece out fragments of feverish rumor. In Manhattan, Crooner Johnny Johnston, 33, stoutly denied any romantic involvement with Shirley. In Hollywood, his wife. Cinemactress Kathryn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Dignified Manner | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

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