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Word: tacks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Connally's loyal little band?Georgia's Russell, North Carolina's Bailey, South Carolina's James Byrnes, Tennessee's Kenneth McKellar, Louisiana's Ellender, and Pat Harrison?began their operations they had one stroke of luck. Illinois' porky, cautious William Dieterich had persuaded the Judiciary Committee to tack on an amendment exempting counties (i. e., Illinois' Cook) from liabilities arising from gang murders and labor violence. This gave Kenneth McKellar an opportunity to bait Illinois'. Ham Lewis into a voluble debate on Chicago jurisprudence. North Carolina's Robert Reynolds helped out by discussing Europe, the Orient, the British Isles, South...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Black's White | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

...same court just before he resigned to run for President in 1916: a crowded docket. Chief case which senior Judge John C. Knox may assign to his new colleague is the second trial of several defendants for fraudulent use of the mails in manipulating the stock of Atlas Tack Corp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Return | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

Smitty's Tack* Room, showing the jockey's iron bed, saddle & bridle on a peg, table with empty beer bottles, and the cheap fur coat and red slippers of one of Smitty's girlfriends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Horse Painting | 12/20/1937 | See Source »

...Tack'': saddle, bridle, whip and other racint equipment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Horse Painting | 12/20/1937 | See Source »

...forced into expensive changes of his production and advertising systems, thinks differently, and various rayon groups have spent the three weeks since the original FTC decision trying hard to get it altered. Last week Erwin Feldman, counsel for the National Association of House Dress Manufacturers, tried a new tack by storming that fibre identification is due to Japanese propaganda spread by the International Silk Guild in an attempt to spike rayon sales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Miss Jaffray & Japan | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

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