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Word: roberte (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Louisiana's second Governor Long on his first day in office put flowers on the grave of Brother Huey. Earl Long also conferred with New Orleans' Boss & Mayor Robert S. Maestri, who is the most potent politician left in Louisiana. For his motto Earl Long picked up a Biblical proverb: "Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: Jimmy the Stooge | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

...Harold Ickes before turning his PWA over to its new big boss, John Carmody, was to rescind a $21,600 grant to the University of Georgia because he had learned the "dormitory" it would build was a new lodge for Sigma Nu, fraternity of Lawrence Wood ("Chip") Robert, secretary of the National Democratic Committee and adroit wangler of Federal grants & contracts. Mr. Ickes had previously raised Cain over commissions claimed by Mr. Robert's construction firm for PWA work in Georgia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: For 1940 | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

Maisie (Ann Sothern, Robert Young; TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Jul. 10, 1939 | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

Good-Bye, Mr. Chips (Robert Donat, Greer Garson; TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Jul. 10, 1939 | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

...their way back from the South Pole in March 1912, Captain Robert Falcon Scott and his party perished of starvation and cold. To his wife, Kathleen, Explorer Scott wrote: "I must write a little letter for the boy if time can be found, to be read when he grows up. The inherited vice from my side of the family is indolence-above all he must guard, and you must guard him, against that. I had to force myself into being strenuous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Wild Goose Chaser | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

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