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Word: reasonsable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most nubile of U. S. churches is the Presbyterian. According to a recent survey, most churchgoers, if they had to merge, would pick the Presbyterians. Some reasons for this popularity: Presbyterianism stands midway between the episcopal and the congregational systems of church government; its form of worship is simple; its...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Bishops & Presbyters | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

In effect the order did C. I. O. two great favors: 1) guarded against wage slashes which might otherwise follow the wholesale price cuts precipitated last year by unionized U, S. Steel; 2) turned competitive heat upon non-union Little Steel companies, wiping out some of their economic reasons for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: C. I. O. Prevails | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

Despite the clamor, Premier Edouard Daladier's Cabinet decided to adhere to strict nonintervention, keep the border sealed, let the Spanish Loyalists sink or swim on their own. All week their boat sank lower in the water. An army man himself, for nearly three years Minister of National Defense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Bloodless Hands | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

In 1933 John Ickes, 65, elder brother to Secretary of the Interior Harold LeClair Ickes, was reinstated in his Chicago municipal clerkship from which he had been ousted for "political reasons" seven years earlier. In short order Mr. Ickes sued the city for $51,462 back salary and interest. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 30, 1939 | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

Equipped with English subtitles, Sable Cicada is an ingratiating curio, remarkable for sets, costumes and genial Chinese mugging by I. E. Koo, as the lustful Prime Minister. Most censorable sequence: mischievous Cicada pretending to commit suicide and then lying to both admirers about her reasons.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 30, 1939 | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

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