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Word: summer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...angry charges at the lobby committee, accused it of prejudice, dirty politics, a determination to besmirch his reputation. He insisted his motives were pure, that he had done nothing improper. Rather lamely he accused Senator Elaine, a lobby-hunter, of carrying a capitol policeman (federal paid) to Wisconsin last summer, using him as a chauffeur. This Senator Elaine vehemently denied. Other Senators arose, attacked Bingham without mercy. Senator Norris broadly hinted at a resolution of censure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Great Lobby Hunt, Cont. | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

...fortnight prior the 88-year-old War Prime Minister had returned to Paris from his summer cottage, told friends that he did not expect to live through the winter. Early last week his valet found the old Tiger in bed, breathing heavily, unconscious from a sudden heart attack. Worried specialists rushed to his bedside, administered oxygen, strychnine, summoned his son, his daughter, his grandson. They privately gave up hope that the old man could live through the night. They forgot the implacable will of Georges Clémenceau. The man who carried France through the dark winter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Armistice | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

...doing my level best to sell Cheese. The heartbreaks and disappointments all came back and were just as real as if they were just happening. Over again I ate my ten cent breakfast of coffee and rolls, and quietly slipped one into my pocket for lunch. I remembered the summer underwear and low shoes that I wore during that cold winter of 1907 ... the past when the Kraft Company was small and everybody called everybody else by his first name-even the stenographers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: National City Foods | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

...were these predictions, there have happened since 1925 events that even visionary President Kraft could not have foreseen. In 1928 Kraft Cheese Co. acquired Phenix Cheese Corp., changed its name to Kraft-Phenix Cheese Co., became dominant in the U. S. More companies have been added constantly. Late this summer it became known that control of Kraft-Phenix had passed to Selected Industries, Inc., and affiliated investment groups. But bigger than any of these developments was an announcement last week that Kraft-Phenix would be a unit in a new food company sponsored by the National City Bank. Other companies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: National City Foods | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

...conduct all forms of gambling, that his casino would be ten times as large as the one at Monte Carlo, would have a room containing 42 tables, seating 600 players. Said he: "My announcement is the best answer to reports undoubtedly instigated by jealous rival casinos and broadcasted last summer that the palace would be turned into an automobile garage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 4, 1929 | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

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