Search Details

Word: tate (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Author. Andrew Nelson Lytle is one of the group of young literary Southerners (others: Allen Tate, John Crowe Ransom, Lyle Lanier) which is trying to organize an agrarian movement in the South. Author Lytle lives on a farm in north Alabama. Bedford Forrest is his first book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cavalry, C. S. A.* | 6/22/1931 | See Source »

...Last week Sir Joseph was reported to have commissioned Manhattan Architect John Russell Pope to design the $250,000 wing he is giving to London's famed Tate Gallery to house sculptures and watercolors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 15, 1931 | 6/15/1931 | See Source »

...past three years Treasury Department chemists-whose duty it was to denature tax-free industrial alcohol long before Prohibition-have been busy seeking a substitute for wood alcohol. Alco-tate, discovered by no one man, is a by-product of cracked California petroleum. Its formula is a Treasury secret. But Director Doran is confident that it can not be precipitated from or distilled out of grain alcohol. About Jan. 1 it will go into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Spoiled Eggs & Garlic | 12/22/1930 | See Source »

...Dallas, fortnight ago, citizens went to the polls and voted to have a city manager instead of their picturesque Mayor J. Waddy ("Hot Dog") Tate. Thus on May 1 they will join Cleveland, Cincinnati, Rochester (N. Y.), and 392 managerized U. S. cities where at present there is no major civic scandal. Grinning Mayor Tate was famed for his vote-getting campaign stunt of free hotdogs, promises of free donkeyrides for children, free City Hall sitting for bums, free potted plants for funerals. Long had he fought the manager-movement, contending that under such a system the Plain People...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Managers v. Mayors | 10/27/1930 | See Source »

...York. The mob of 20,000 rushed the lines of police and national guardsmen with as much mad enthusiasm as though the plane had flown direct from Paris. At length a wedge of guards forced a lane to the Southern Air Transport administration building where Mayor J. Waddy Tate and Attorney Cullen F. Thomas (for Governor Moody) offered the visitors the freedom of Dallas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Uphill Route | 9/15/1930 | See Source »

Previous | 206 | 207 | 208 | 209 | 210 | 211 | 212 | 213 | 214 | 215 | 216 | 217 | 218 | 219 | 220 | 221 | 222 | 223 | 224 | 225 | 226 | Next