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Word: pleasing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Secretary of the Interior Ickes reported to the Senate on his stewardship of $3,300,000,000 which had been given him last July to help put the country back to work. The last of PWA's vast bankroll, said Administrator Ickes, had been allotted in February...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RECOVERY: PWA Report | 4/30/1934 | See Source »

Amid the familiar pleas and protests of educators' conferences, observers noted one significant difference. With the breakdown of local support, educators have turned almost unanimously to cry for Federal subsidy. Last week conferring citizens were inclined to think that Education's salvation lay in the State. Echoed by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Beggar Bespoken | 4/16/1934 | See Source »

Only six weeks ago Dr. Wolman, outdone with the Labor Board's support of the A. F. of L. system, resigned. Only strong pleas from General Johnson got him to withdraw his resignation. Labor man he is but he does not rub shoulders with the labor men whom open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Detroit Sittings | 4/9/1934 | See Source »

Franklin D. Roosevelt was the first President to put a woman into his Cabinet. Last week he became the first to put a woman on the Circuit Federal bench. Before he leaves the White House his friends think he will be the first to put a woman on the Supreme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Federal First | 3/19/1934 | See Source »

In the first place, there are too many crimes committed. In times like these there are people who must steal in order to live, and there are always many hardened criminals for whom there is no remedy but jail. Nothing can be done about these. But when there are young...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A STATE POLICE | 3/15/1934 | See Source »

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