Word: periodical
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...offence charged was operating under the influence of liquor. In addition, Manker will receive a year's suspended sentence, with a six-year probation period, for manslaughter...
...were peach baskets. Shoving and tackling under the original catch-as-catch-can rules, the hearty players (the oldest was 61, the youngest 53) battled for all they were worth. When the game was over the score was 2-to-2. Unanimously the players decided to postpone the overtime period until...
...wing study of early U. S. capitalists, The Robber Barons (1934), Josephson wrote of men who "spoke little and did much"-Jay Gould, Jim Fisk, Collis Huntington, Morgan, Rockefeller. In The Politicos he writes of men who did as little as possible and spoke all too much. For the period after the Civil War saw the flowering of the spellbinders, the men who, when trapped in some snide deal, escaped by waving the bloody shirt, denouncing Jeff Davis, pulling out all the stops in tearful eulogies to the Union dead...
...EDUCATION OF A DIPLOMAT-Hugh Wilson-Longmans, Green ($2.50). Pleasantly written, diplomatically reticent reminiscences of the present U. S. Ambassador to Germany, covering the period from 1911 to the entry of the U. S. into the War, embassy experiences in Lisbon, Guatemala, Buenos Aires, Berlin...
With unhappy untimeliness, Secretary of Commerce Daniel Calhoun Roper last week remarked over the radio: "There is evidence of resistance to further business and economic decline, indicating that the liquidation period has about subsided...