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Word: samuels (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past eight months' experience in building may well be the beginning of a new cycle for construction in the United States-a period that will be greater and longer in building activity than we have ever seen before." So said President Samuel M. Waters of the Mortgage Bankers' Association at a Texas convention last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOUSING: Phase No. 5 | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

...John Anderson, Lord Privy Seal, whose duties are to be those of a minister for civilian defense, blamed the whole thing on "enormous" British inertia, called upon all parties to "cooperate to prove that Democracy can function to protect itself as efficiently as a Dictatorship." Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare, while admitting "many mistakes of omission and commission," emphasized that His Majesty's Government did distribute 38,000,000 gas masks to the public, helped dig trenches in which 1,000,000 Britons could have huddled during air raids. The existing trenches and many more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Confessions & Concoctions | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

Today Cooper Union is less renowned than in Cooper's day, when it produced such illustrious bearer-backers of the world's evils as Sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Inventor Michael Pupin, Unionist Samuel Gompers. But 1,800 students in its free art and engineering schools (with day and evening branches), picked from seven times as many applicants, still grub earnestly at their education...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: On the Bowery | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

Justin J. Radin '40, Wains T. Ray '39, Norman J. Richards '40, Elliot L. Richardson '41, Samuel B. Richmond '40, James M. Robertson Jr. '39, Fred Rogoesin '39, Isadore N. Rosenberg '40, Sidney Rsenberg '40, Sidney D. Ross '39, Leon N. Satenstein '39, Abraham Schneider '41, Charles J. Shagoury '40, Ely A. Shamieh '41, Harold S. Shapero '41, Bernard D. Shea '41, Harry M. Shooshan Jr. '39, William Siegel '39, Francis E. Silva Jr. '41, Richard V. Smith '41, Irving H. Soden '39, Samuel Soll '40, Leon D. Starr '40, paul K. Stumpt '41, Charles G. Swain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 206 SCHOLARSHIPS ARE ANNOUNCED BY THE CORPORATION | 11/8/1938 | See Source »

...both. After the War he went to Hollywood, persuaded Douglas Fairbanks to give him a job acting in The Knickerbocker Buckaroo. After William Wellman took one good look at himself on the screen he decided he was an even worse actor than salesman, became a messenger boy for Samuel Goldwyn. When General Pershing was being shown around the lot one day he spied Wellman, whom he had known when Wellman and Poloist Tommy Hitchcock were famed for their trick of flying low over German towns and firing their machine guns at church bells. Said Pershing: "Why, Bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 7, 1938 | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

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