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Word: public (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is a bright side to Rumania and her people and this side should be brought into prominence before the American public. The King, too, under great stress and strain, is trying to do a good job. He should be encouraged, and should be aided. Let them who have never sinned throw the first stone. LEO WOLFSON...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 4, 1939 | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

Third Term. The Gallup Poll showed a 2.2% decline in the President's popularity. But on the third term issue the FORTUNE Survey indicated the greatest shift of public opinion that it has recorded. In its December issue, FORTUNE revealed that 47.4% of the people favor a third term, an increase of 12.5% since the war began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Quiet | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...dormitory residents have received from the Cambridge Tuberculosis and Health Association, new conducting its thirty-third annual Christmas seal sale, sheets of the well-known stamps through the mails. Since "tuberculosis is no longer the white man's plague," part of the proceeds will go towards education of the public about other fatal diseases such as cancer and syphilis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Red Cross, Tuberculosis Seals, Salvation Army Figure in Charity Drive | 12/2/1939 | See Source »

Artie Shaw may have left the music business of his own free will. But he did so about two jumps ahead of an eviction order. The dance public is relieved rather than worried about his departure...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 12/1/1939 | See Source »

...years before getting anywhere. Even sweet bands like Sammy Kaye were broke, but didn't bellyache. The show business demands an eye for an eye, and Shaw, after having fired the musicians that stuck to him in the thin days, decided that the role of a Hamletian martyr committing public hari-kari was better than facing the music of a non-tinkling cash register...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 12/1/1939 | See Source »

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