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Word: refugee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unfortunately for Mr. Bennett's account as far as it concerned the beating of Organizer Frankensteen, there were too many _ witnesses. Newshawks reported recognizing Ford "service men" as the attackers reported that these men had asked which were Frankensteen and Reuther. Also the Ford men were not quick enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Strikes of the Week | 6/7/1937 | See Source »

The Roman Governor, now thoroughly alarmed, waited watchfully. "Nero's" rule, at first wildly popular, grew into hated tyranny as "Nero's" hangers-on, whom Varro found it harder & harder to control, made hay by killing and confiscating right & left. By the time Cejonius was removed from his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nero's Double | 5/24/1937 | See Source »

...when almost all the private railroad cars in the U. S. are in simultaneous use. Despite 50 such vehicles parked in Louisville railroad yards, roofs and beds in the city are always fabulously scarce. This year Louisville's Derby Festival Committee rounded up accommodations for 20,000 Derby refugees, in everything from $1 rooms to 12-room houses at $1,000 for the weekend. At Churchill Downs, main refuge during the flood which did it $8,000 damage, renovations this year include 3,000 new seats, 150 new boxes. With 70,000 paid spectators and 5,000 admitted free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: 63rd Derby | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

With education in his blood, too, Alcott set out on the road once more. This time he peddled not notions but what he called Conversations- informal but high-souled colloquies of 20 or 30 people. These Conversations never degenerated into arguments; if they did, "Alcott simply took refuge in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Transcendentalist | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

Civilian Rule. The smell of spring survived the stench of corpses in Madrid last week. A few almond trees bravely retained their bloom as the Rightists continued to flail Madrid day after day with unremitting shellfire. And from Valencia, where Leftist Premier Francisco Largo Caballero was still seeking refuge, an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Baker's Council | 5/3/1937 | See Source »

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