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Word: provisionally (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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"Gentlemen, your agony is about over but mine has just begun," South Trimble, Clerk of the House, told newsman last week after he had announced his conclusion to make public Reconstruction Finance Corp. loans. The Relief Act of last July required the R. F. C. to report its loans to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Light on Loans | 8/29/1932 | See Source »

What They Got. Premier Bennett, shrewdest haggler of them all, went into the Conference with one supreme determination?to get from Britain the right of free entry for all natural products of the Dominions. Great Britain's tariff law enacted last March had imposed duties against foreign goods with the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Quids & Quos | 8/29/1932 | See Source »

Career: After a public school education he was taken to Washington by his father Charles Frederick Crisp. Confederate veteran and Georgia Representative (1883-96), who got him, aged 19, a clerkship in the Interior Department. When his father was chosen Speaker (1891), he got a job as House parliamentarian -experting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 8, 1932 | 8/8/1932 | See Source »

(4 of 4) In appearance he is short, well-built. He and Secretary of the Treasury Mills are about of a size. His clothes are neat but distinctive. His hair is thinning on top. He carries his head tilted to one side. His public manners are easy, gracious. He makes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 8, 1932 | 8/8/1932 | See Source »

"Congress made provision for the return home of the so-called Bonus marchers. . . . Some 5,000 took advantage of the arrangement. . . . An examination of a large number of names discloses the fact that a considerable part of those remaining are not veterans. . . . Many are Communists and persons with criminal records...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Battle of Washington | 8/8/1932 | See Source »

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