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Word: pense (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Impatient to handshake President Herbert Hoover, Premier Pierre Laval last week shoved ahead two days the sailing date of the French Line ship that will carry him, 5. S. lie de France. Promptly in several hundred European hotels other passengers booked on the lie de France seized the usual ink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Laval Leaving | 10/12/1931 | See Source »

With Great Britain off the gold standard, the U. S. and France are the world's bankers. Economically, therefore, Premier Pierre Laval and President Herbert Clark Hoover are the world's two key men. Last week they made plans to meet in Washington the latter part of this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Key Men | 10/5/1931 | See Source »

In Washington, Representatives call each other names. In Japan, deputies sometimes fight with daggers and fountain pens (TIME, Feb. 16). In France they punch each other on the nose, have been known to use a dog whip (TIME, Nov. 17 ). In Poland they hurl inkwells, kick each other's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Chamber Music | 9/7/1931 | See Source »

Last week was not quite a normal one in which to inspect the League. The problem that was temporarily occupying the Secretariat's exalted minds was the low state of Poetry. The Assembly looked more like a publisher's tea than a political assembly. Present as members of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE: Bards in Session | 7/20/1931 | See Source »

When President Hoover signed the tariff act with six gold pens, he promised to make liberal use of its flexibility provision to eliminate "inequalities and injustices." During the law's first year the Commission was asked to investigate 193 commodities with a view to rate changes.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TARIFF: Up: 3 ; Down: 4 | 7/6/1931 | See Source »

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