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Word: tearless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rode New York's bald, kindly Governor Herbert Lehman, glad to be unnoticed. At his office in Albany, some hours later, he met them face to face. For five hours Mesdames Fanny Zimmerman, Yetta Friedman, Ellen O'Loughlin, Yetta Chaleff, Mary Guariglia sat before him silent and tearless (by advice of counsel). For five hours he had to face them while lawyers-talking of poverty, slum life, marijuana, liquor-urged him to commute the sentences of the five women's five sons, aged 19 to 27, who were doomed to die January 26 for committing murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Five Mothers | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

Britannia: "Help!" In the weary hours of debate preceding midnight teary Sir Austen's tearless half-brother Neville Chamberlain, the hawk-nosed, hawk-minded Chancellor of the Exchequer, went a long way toward announcing what policy in the Ethiopian crisis is now to be followed by Britain. "If the League of Nations should decide that oil sanctions should be applied." said Mr. Chamberlain, "and that they can be effective-and should we be satisfied that all members of the League are not only ready to give us assurances but are also prepared to take their part in meeting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Hoare Crisis | 12/30/1935 | See Source »

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