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Word: reread (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Repercussions came immediately, spread throughout the U. S. Attorney General Frank Murphy, whose dark red eyebrows are ranked third in Washington below Lewis' and Garner's, had a reporter reread Lewis' statement to him, chuckled heartily, said aloud: "That's too eloquent for comment," then sotto voce to a nearby reporter: "It's a sinful world." (Mr. Murphy and the entire press section of the Justice Department spent the rest of that day and evening, in hasty afterthought, insisting he had not correctly understood the statement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: 25 Lousy Cents! | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

Charles Wheeler Ervin, 73-year-old public relations adviser to the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, looks back with nostalgia on the years when he was editor of the Socialist New York Call, from 1916 until 1922. He likes to thumb through old files of the Call, reread Eugene Debs's daily letters from prison, smile at advertisements announcing John and Lionel Barrymore in The Jest, cluck his tongue appreciatively at some of the best news reporting of another troubled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Prophecy | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

...investigator didn't reread whether or not his search bad culminated at Lampy, but set out toward Mother Advocate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: G-MEN SEARCH LAMPY FOR EXTORTION CLUES | 4/21/1939 | See Source »

...Leader Barkley contributed a laugh, however. To make sure no Senator misunderstood, he intervened to have a question reread before a vote was taken. Then he got balled up himself, voted the wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Reorganization Reorganized | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

...When he returned to national defense, it was with implied reference again to Adolf Hitler & Co. The possibility of the U. S. being air-raided, he said, had increased tremendously in five years. When asked if he had any particular air-raiders in mind, he told his questioner to reread the international news of those same years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Continental Solidarity | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

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