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Word: theys (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Senators Will Hear ... As the debate began. ex-Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Anderson rolled out a bill based on the Democratic Party platform-a sliding scale of generous supports, ranging from 90% of parity down to 75%, depending on the size of U.S. harvests. But North Dakota's Republican...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Farmer's Friends | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

When he took off his pants in a sleeping compartment of the Barcelona-Bilbao express one night last week, New York's Congressman Eugene J. Keogh, Democrat, made a serious mistake. He hung them near the open window. In the next compartment, Congressman James P. Richards, Democrat, of South...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In a Little Spanish Town | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

Since the pair were junketing through Spain with two other Congressmen and Maine's G.O.P. Senator Owen Brewster, they were able to borrow pants without trouble. But the incident set up a great and indignant gobbling: Keogh had been carrying the group's expense money in his wallet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In a Little Spanish Town | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

Through luck, industry, and the process of squeezing assorted stool pigeons until they quacked like ducks, the Spanish cops rounded up five train robbers, the pants (Congressman Richards' still had a rabbit's foot in one pocket). Congressman Keogh's wallet and $3,800. They announced, not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In a Little Spanish Town | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

Then the newsmen heard the President air a surprising view of how an appointment to a key Government office should be regarded. The case of Leland Olds, Mr. Truman said, was a question of party discipline, party policy. The trouble was, there were a lot of Democrats on Capitol Hill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Shocking Words | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

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