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Word: recommending (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...number of close calls which he has; they occur, in fact, about every two minutes during the last two acts, and after the first dozen or so one becomes distinctly indifferent about his fate. As a mystery thriller, "Ten-Minute Alibi" does not have much to recommend it; as a melodrama it is of the young-girl-seduced-by-the-handsome-villain school...

Author: By H. F. K., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 2/7/1934 | See Source »

...rail matters. Last week Coordinator Eastman answered the question in a 350-page report, the core of which was: "Theoretically and logically public ownership and operation meet the known ills of the present situation better than any other remedy." But: "I am not now prepared to recommend . . . public ownership and operation . . . for the principal reason that the country is not now financially in a condition to stand the strain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Eastman Answers | 1/29/1934 | See Source »

Last week the Democratic majority of the House Ways & Means Committee voted to recommend to Congress the following Federal liquor tax schedule: Spirits-$2 per gal., up from $1.10. Light wines-10? per gal., up from 4?. Heavy wines-20? per gal., up from 10?. Fortified wines-40? to $2 per gal., up from 25? & $1.10. Domestic sparkling wines-80? per gal, down from $1.92. Beer-$5 per bbl., down from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taxes Pegged | 1/1/1934 | See Source »

...score of equality of the sexes the Conference voted to submit to all member states a draft treaty under which "equal nationality rights" would be guaranteed to women, and to recommend that all countries grant them "civil and political equality." Secretary Hull, acting on cabled orders from Washington, abstained from voting for the resolution because there is a faction in the Administration, led by the President's wife, which favors granting to women at work and in the home more than equal rights with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Golden Rule Conference | 12/25/1933 | See Source »

...suddenly burgeoning in the largest of American bosoms, are not so rosy; perhaps they are too much out of character. At any rate, the whole picture is a series of such up and downs and contrasts; as art, it is a flop; as entertainment, it gets there, and I recommend...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 12/19/1933 | See Source »

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