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Word: stampeders (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Amid discord, one thing every United Automobile Worker could agree on, however, was that the first and biggest obstacle in their union path was Henry Ford. The delegates stamped and whistled when Wisconsin's labor-loving Governor Philip Fox La Follette observed: "Henry Ford is probably a nice fellow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Problem Child | 9/6/1937 | See Source »

As sharp fighting raged between Japanese and Chinese last week in Tientsin worried U. S. citizens in this great Chinese city decided they would be safer if they showed the Stars & Stripes, discovered that the only purchasable U. S. flags in town were all stamped "Made in Japan" and offered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA-JAPAN: Hitler Touch | 8/9/1937 | See Source »

Three grizzled prospectors - Arrin Thorpe of the U. S., Joanes Van Steck, a Frenchman, and Antonio Hill, a German- weary from months of prospecting, stopped their pack burros near the Piedra Candela settlement in the shadow of the Santa Maria Mountains on the Costa Rican-Panamanian border one day last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PANAMA: Conquistador Gold | 7/26/1937 | See Source »

Presuming that a man spells his own name correctly on his stationery, it may interest you to know that on the die-stamped letterhead of Mr. P. S. duPont the name appears in all capitals, with the "du" slightly smaller just as TIME used it on the June 28 cover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 19, 1937 | 7/19/1937 | See Source »

Readers will find here little confirmation of the notion that temperamentally the Japanese are suited to the English, the Chinese to Americans. To Madame Ichikawa, who claims the Japanese character "is like a peppercorn, small but hot," the English were the least compatible people she found. Students looked "just like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Japan's Provincial Lady | 7/19/1937 | See Source »

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