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Word: rudest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other world, which has such deep sympathy for these criminals, will at least be generous enough to convert this sympathy into practical aid. We, on our part, are ready to put all these criminals at the disposal of these countries, for all I care, even on luxury ships." Rudest German comment on the plan came from the Schwarze Korps, official organ of the Secret Police: "We still offer in free Hamburg a well-assorted stock of Jewish lawyers, well-preserved and well-rested women doctors, specialists for skin and social diseases, also Jewish business heads and raw material wholesalers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Refugee Committee | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

...there in the President's cry of the Founding Fathers: ''Theirs were not the gods of things as they were, but the gods of things as they ought to be. They used new means and new models to build new structures." Nor could any but the rudest lips reproach the admirers of Franklin Roosevelt and Thomas Jefferson for the cheer they sent up when one declared of the other: ''He was a great gentleman. He was a great commoner. The two are not incompatible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Talks & Travels | 7/13/1936 | See Source »

...five long years Louisiana has been held fast in the political fist of its crudest, rudest demagog-Huey Pierce ("King-fish") Long. By last week it appeared that his grip was gradually weakening. His prestige has been badly damaged at home because patronage from President Roosevelt has been going to anti-Long men, a situation which caused Senator Long to blurt out at a Milwaukee veterans' convention: "To hell with the Administration!" And over his head hangs the threat of Federal court action on charges of income tax evasion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: Committed in a Cathedral | 12/4/1933 | See Source »

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