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Word: signed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...then discontinued its advertising in the Eagle. In another virtually identical case, the Guild lost. One Mile Reif's beauty parlor which advertised in the Eagle was picketed. One of the picketers dressed as a monkey and went through simian antics as he marched back & forth carrying a sign "I was once a beautiful woman." Another picketer shouted: "Don't patronize Mademoiselle

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Secondary Picketing | 12/20/1937 | See Source »

Major Berry began corralling mineral leases in the Tennessee Valley in 1932 with a Knoxville real-estate man named C. A. Harris as partner and W. H. Ford, a local promoter, as their agent. Ford continued to sign leases after President-elect Roosevelt first submitted his plan for a series of dams in the Tennessee Valley in substantially the form of the present TVA. Last of the 252 leases, each calling for a consideration of $1 and mostly providing for minimum royalties up to 25? an acre if mineral production was not begun within twelve months, was registered on March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: Berry's Biggest | 12/20/1937 | See Source »

...half in Hitler's arms, and long, lean Colonel Josef Beck, Polish Foreign Minister and player of ticktacktoe with General Hermann Wilhelm Goring, was adamant against obliging M. Delbos by so much as a communique lauding the League of Nations. The most that grudging Beck would do was sign with Delbos a communique that "both nations are equally devoted to their alliance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Traveling Diplomat | 12/20/1937 | See Source »

...even if they were given the means whereby to learn of the modern world, the traditions of centuries would keep them as narrow minded and oblivious to the ways of others as the speed of the Twenticth Century narrows the viewpoint of cosmopolitan society. If sophistication, then, is a sign of civilization, the Mexican native is far from uncivilized...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

...such a circuitous manner the Vagabond mused as he entered Tamazunchale, unfortunately in no way similar to New York's 52nd Street night club of somewhat the same name. Tamazunchale, meaning in Huastecan no less than "Where the Governess Is," is notable for a large sign, on one side of the most dingy of thirty very dingy huts reading "Dentista" in large letters, but behind these huts grow tangled masses of orchids...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

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