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Word: takings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...finance activities of the country would be essential; also, in order to keep our economic system from becoming geared to a war-time pitch, with the inflation this entails, it would be necessary to control industrial and agricultural production and to fix all prices. Even this does not take into account the dangers of mass psychology. Inescapable is the conclusion that America, by reenforcing positive resistance to the totalitarian states, is promoting in the only practical way possible her own peace and security...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LOCKING THE BARN DOOR . . . | 2/3/1939 | See Source »

Frankfurter, the third Roosevelt appointee listened in on the Court discussion of the T. V. A., while the decisions on the Child Labor Amendment and on the Kansas City stockyard settlement were presumably delayed until the new justice can take part in the discussions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRANKFURTER ATTENDS TVA HEARING AFTER INDUCTION | 2/1/1939 | See Source »

...offered to supply a hall and provide Hicks with as many tickets as he will need for his "friends and followers" for a debate with him on the subject: "Resolved; That Communism is the enemy of American Democracy," of course, the Rev. Mr. Curran would take the affirmative side of the issue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GAUNTLET THROWN BY PRESIDENT OF CATHOLIC TRUTH SOCIETY | 2/1/1939 | See Source »

...show their devotion by strangling some thirty thousand persons a year, are Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. These men engage in the usual pitched battles, of course, but this time skill and originality of direction make them more than mere spectacles; and more important, the leads take time out now and then for delightful humorous escapades...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/1/1939 | See Source »

...fourth guest puzzled Vag the most-Sophia. She was always bothering Vag to buy books or take them out of the library; then she'd ask him to read them to her. Sometimes he would-that is when she looked pretty, but there was never a girl whose appearance varied more from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 2/1/1939 | See Source »

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