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Word: owne (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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At 10 a.m. one morning last week, in the caucus room of the Old House Office Building, there opened a Congressional investigation as suave, sophisticated, polite and cynical as a Somerset Maugham comedy. It was the beginning of the Smith Committee hearings of the Wagner Act-that most crucial piece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Labor's Safeguardians | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Smith Committee heard Joe Ozanic, president of A. F. of L.'s Progressive Mine Workers, bitterly proclaim that the Wagner Act and NLRB decisions had put thousands of Progressive miners under the jurisdiction of John Lewis' United Mine null They read of Roosevelt Son-in-law John Boettiger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Labor's Safeguardians | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

From the testimony emerged the picture of the Board's headaches with its own employes-one too zealous, another with a weakness for drink, good men in the wrong positions, some suspicious of their fellow employes, some mixed in obscure political doings, some incompetent but devoted, some clever but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Labor's Safeguardians | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

The world changed color and shape for the stupefied Masons. To their house in the slums of South Philadelphia rushed well-wishers, curiosity-seekers, oil-well and gold-mine promoters. Police had to rope off their street. A man in Liberia wanted them to finance a bus line from Monrovia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Sweepstakes | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Haunting the cameras of Hollywood for the last few years has been an impish and rather repulsive face with a decided inclination towards mugging and hogging. That face is Mickey Rooney's gargoyle and exhibitionist extraordinary. True to form, Rooney has mugged and hogged his way through his latest picture...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

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