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Word: thievish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only to find it again on his desk, with modifications, a few days later. This resilient scheme belonged to President Roosevelt's fifth cousin once removed, Philip James Roosevelt, a Manhattan banker who fortnight ago shocked a Senatorial subcommittee by declaring that his kinsman's government was thievish. As chairman of a bondholders' committee for Minneapolis & St. Louis R. R., Banker Roosevelt was trying to get his own reorganization plan approved rather than see the road devoured piecemeal by eight other lines, as RFChairman Jones had suggested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Resilient Scheme | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

...Porto Ricans . . . are beyond doubt the dirtiest, laziest, most degenerate and thievish race of men ever inhabiting this sphere. What the island needs is not public health work but a tidal wave or something to totally exterminate the population. It might then be livable. I have done my best to further the process of extermination by killing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Porto Ricochet | 2/15/1932 | See Source »

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