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Word: temperedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Normally even-tempered and, though often profane, seldom bitter, Harry Hop kins becomes aroused when WPA is at tacked. One of its loudest critics lately has been Representative Hamilton Fish of New York who last month said of WPA that "the whole rotten mess stinks to high heaven and, like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: Men at Work | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

Grousing of another sort at Generalissimo Franco was whispered last week by functionaries of the French Foreign Office in Paris. Favored journalists were tipped that under arrest in Saragossa, for having made a speech in which he attacked the Rightist Air Force for too vigorous bombing, was famed General Juan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN SPAIN: Clipped Wings | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

To succeed the aged, conservative publisher of the enormously wealthy, faintly stodgy Washington Star as A. P.'s supervising chief, A. P. directors this week chose the middleaged, conservative publisher of the enormously wealthy, faintly stodgy Philadelphia Bulletin. To the 35,000,000 readers of A. P. dispatches, retiring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: McLean for Noyes | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

Creator of such familiar personalities as The Toonerville Skipper, The Terrible Tempered Mr. Bang, Aunt Eppie Hogg, The Powerful Katrinka, and Mickey (Himself) McGuire is a mild-mannered little newspaper cartoonist named Fontaine Fox. Last week the U. S. Board of Tax Appeals handed down a decision on a less...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXATION: Foxy Reynard | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

C. I. O.'s joy at the blow to Beck's prestige was tempered by the size of Langlie's vote and the knowledge that A. F. of L. leaders would do their best to defeat Meyers. Last week, in the runoff election, 37-year-old Lawyer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WASHINGTON: Seattle Revolt | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

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