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Word: proportionate (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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A movement that is politically so appealing as to capture both Sheridan Downey and Leverett Saltonstall cannot be ignored. Increase of retirement benefits and extension of the scope of recipients would do much, but the plan must be put permanently upon a reliable, pay-as-you-go basis. Eventually, the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PENSIONS AND POLITICS | 2/11/1939 | See Source »

Young Texan, uncorrupted by any form of government charity, will faithfully serve any American whose business demands loyalty and hard work and also offers real advancement in proportion to ability and experience. Married; no children; college trained; teaching experience; four and one-half years payroll, junior accounting and general office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 23, 1939 | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

Chase National's bristle-haired Winthrop Aldrich (also a lawyer before he was a banker) as usual took on the job of stating banking's case. Said he: "The fact that total commercial, industrial and agricultural loans have failed to rise in proportion to the great increase in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MONEY & BANKING: Ultimate Encomium | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

A great deal has been written about the dearth of the "snap course," and the fact that college today is not what it used to be in the way of three parts fun to one part work. If true, it is fortunate for the future of education here that his...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WELCOME WORD | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

Propaganda Men. The propaganda content in this tonnage of Government publicity usually runs at the proportion of less than one gram per pound. Occasionally it assays much higher. Last February the Bituminous Coal Commission issued one famous release in which a Cleveland city official was described as "coloring deeply" when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Information Men | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

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