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Word: presidental (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: America, judging by the consensus of public opinion is invested with a so-called "crime wave" just now and a great many people are beset with doubt as to the cause of it. Everyone seems to have a different idea. We have been enacting more rigorous laws giving longer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 26, 1929 | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

Looked under "Business." No report. Turned to "National Affairs." No report. "Milestones." Surely there I would find-"Elected: Miss Marion H. McClench, Ann Arbor, Mich., President of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs," etc. Expected also to find a picture of the new leader.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 26, 1929 | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

Virginia formally welcomed President Hoover as its guest and neighbor. In a field near Madison gathered 5,000 people white and black. Governor Harry Flood Byrd arrived from Richmond in U. S. Army airship C-41. The President descended from his Shenandoah National Park Camp, made a non-political speech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Hoover Week: Aug. 26, 1929 | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

The third company was called the Ford Motor Co. The bicycle makers John and Horace Dodge made parts. James Couzens came from the traffic department of a coal yard for $2,500 a year. They paid $75 a month rent for a building; $250 to the Dodges for the working...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Whence Detroit | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

There were many optimists, however, and not a few successes; Ransonx E. Olds, who alone has had two automobiles named after him (Reo?his initials?and Oldsmobile); Walter P. Chrysler, railroad shop superintendent who borrowed $4,300, bought an automobile and spent a winter taking it apart and putting it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Whence Detroit | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

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