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Word: telling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regard to applications for the houses... the booklets are useless, since they do not tell which rooms are to be actually available...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 5/12/1938 | See Source »

Contrasting conditions with those related by two Loyalist deserters who recently landed in Boston, Bangs felt that the aid of Germany and Italy on the Rebel side made things pretty nice. "Food! Good Lord what meals: fresh vegetables, plenty of meat, mmmmm!" and he continued to tell of feasts that would cause even the palate of a Lucius Beebe to water. There was one trouble, however, and that they only got little more than a pint of milk a day, but Bangs seemed to feel that the wines, especially the new spring wine from the Barcelona region, more than made...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Man Sets Up Bureau to Get 100 Fighters for Franco's Battalions | 5/11/1938 | See Source »

Three days later Mrs. Roosevelt was in Boston to tell the sociologist alumnae of Simmons College about the "Problems of Youth," to whom "after all, divorce isn't a problem. All they want to do is get married." Baited for a retort to Mrs. Feehan, tactful Mrs. Roosevelt replied: "Everyone has a right to his opinions, and to say them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Facts of LIFE (.Finis) | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

Replied Franklin Roosevelt in a letter to Commissioner Hanes: "I wish you would thank each of the 16 signers for me personally and tell them if they have any specific suggestions ... I will be glad to receive them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Pledge | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

Famed Banker Thomas William Lamont last week fidgeted on the witness stand for two hours in Washington. He was trying to tell SEC Lawyer Gerhard Gesell (whose 28 years of age precisely equalled the period Mr. Lamont has worked for J. P. Morgan & Co.) why he had told nobody about it when he learned last November that Broker Richard Whitney was not only insolvent but also guilty of using customers' funds illegally. When his partner, George Whitney, came to him to borrow $1,082,000 to help his brother Dick "out of a jam," explained Mr. Lamont. "I moved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Sorely Mistaken | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

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