Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long been supposed that sailors have a wife in every port, but I am sorry to see TIME support this fiction by placing my salty uncle, Paul Hammond, in the difficult position of a bigamist (TIME, Aug. 28, photo "Professor and Mrs. Morison," accompanying article "After Columbus"). Actually, the photograph is of Skipper Hammond and Mrs. Morison...
...TIME, Sept. 4, reports, Thomas Edmund Dewey "rigorously followed Rules 5, 6, 7 of How To Become President," but what about Owosso's traffic rules? See cut, "Dewey in Owosso," p. 13, which pictures Manhattan's Galahad of law and order apparently walking through a red light...
...house. As usual, the President thinks it can be done far more economically than the rest of us do. I was glad to have my brother bear me out, but our combined arguments had no effect on the President, who said cheerfully: 'Well, we will wait and see,' with the calm conviction that he could perform miracles...
...quiet, jovial, as if to let the U. S. people in their own good time draw their own inferences from the fact of his proclaimed national emergency, the larger fact of war on the loose, the plight of the warring democracies and the widening sphere of the dictatorships (see p. 28). Casually, as though he were stating familiar trivia, he reaffirmed what he said last year: that the U. S. will not stand idly by if any expanding foreign power attempts to muscle in on Canada on the north or-he added last week-France's possessions...
...purposeful quietude. Having called Congress into special session (see p. 12), Franklin Roosevelt had no wish prematurely to provoke the mobilizing forces of Isolation. Idaho's formidable Borah was no adversary to be wantonly aroused. The President stepped as delicately as Agag. Meanwhile, he tried to prevent Republicans from forming a solid front against his foreign policy: to his councils this week he summoned Alf M. Landon and his 1936 running mate, Publisher Frank Knox, as earnest that the White House was prepared to practice national unity, whatever isolationist Republicans in the Senate might...