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Word: summer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...youngest and most active New Deal Justice, Bill Douglas, planned (unless the illness of his wife's mother interferes) to spend most of the summer close to Washington, at his suburban home in Silver Spring, Md. Some observers discerned in this plan an unusual situation: a Justice of the Supreme Court who is still an executive insider. Since his elevation from SEC, Bill Douglas has been by no means inaccessible to his friend, Jerry Frank, now running that agency, to Janizary Tom Corcoran, and to the President himself. His week-end cruise with Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Hopkins last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Jackson's Term | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

...Under Britain's new conscription law the Government can call up reserves without publicly announcing it, a facility the dictators have long used to scare their adversaries. Last week there began a quiet, gradual mobilization of reservists in Britain which is expected to keep under arms throughout the summer and autumn, Europe's danger period, some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER POLITICS: Try, Try Again | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

...been defeated just once in the past three years. So has straight-nosed Bill, No. 2 singles player. Although they are good enough to have a national ranking* (mainly because of a doubles victory over Davis Cuppers Bobby Riggs and Bitsy Grant in the famed Seabright tournament last summer), the Murphy twins have no intention of becoming "tennis bums" (amateur players who tour the circuit of bigtime tournaments and live on the clubs' "expense accounts"). They want jobs as basketball coaches, a game at which they also excel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Doubles | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

Putting the new rates in effect this month, to step up this summer's vacation and World's Fair travel, the cautious Easterns announced they would try them until next January, will continue them if, as plainly indicated by past experience, they work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIERS: Belated Converts | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

George Peabody Gardner '77, Trustee of the University and active in Alumni affairs died yesterday at his summer home in Monument Beach, Bourne in his eighty-third year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: George Peabody Gardner, 83, University Trustee, Is Dead | 6/7/1939 | See Source »

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