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Word: rans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Democrat. He ran for President one year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mutual Friends | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

...bull-muscled frame. He is the strange head of an odd cult which such people as the late Novelist Katharine Mansfield, the late Editor Alfred Richard Orage of the New English Weekly have at one time or another espoused. At Fontainebleau, where Miss Mansfield died in 1924, Gurdjieff ran the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man. He taught his followers intricate dances for which he composed 5,000 pieces of music. He enjoyed mirth, appeared to enjoy heroic rages, advocated intense awareness of every muscular function. Six years ago Gurdjieff arrived in Manhattan, was often to be seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Men, Masters & Messiahs | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

...could hardly get along the street." Artist Blythe turned them all over to Gillespie's, got a permanent drawing account in return, never took more than $5 at a time. Unkempt, red-whiskered, hard-drinking and contemptuous of his new popularity, he was brusque with leading citizens, ran off to be a camp follower during the Civil War, died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Pittsburgh Legend | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

...year-old from Allentown, Pa. who said he was in the ink business with his younger brother. Having bought one share of U. S. Steel for $30 in 1932 and watched it climb to last week's price of $71, Stockholder Snelling wanted to find out how Steel ran its business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Meetings | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

Having thoroughly libeled President John Howard McFadden of the New York Cotton Exchange with accusations of unethical business conduct, Witness Brooks ripped into Cottonman Clayton. Assuring the Senators that Mr. Clayton ran the Cotton Exchange single-handed from his Houston office, the broker declared: "Any reforms on the Exchange must come from legislation, and they must come immediately." Strangled by Cottonman Clayton's domination, the Exchange was "as dead as the mule down on your farm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Conversations About Cotton | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

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