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Word: thinke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stressing the merit of the Bill's provision for six presidential assistants, Professor Elliott said, "If I were looking for faults, I would criticize the abolishment of the Civil Service Commission; I think it should be retained as an examining body. In the second place, the Byrnes Bill makes no proper provision for the independent commissions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: William Y. Elliott Speaks in Favor of Roosevelt Measure For Government Reform; "Bill Is Over Bumps," He Says | 3/30/1938 | See Source »

...think the Bill's over the bumps now; it ought to pass in the House, which is better organized than the Senate," he predicted in conclusion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: William Y. Elliott Speaks in Favor of Roosevelt Measure For Government Reform; "Bill Is Over Bumps," He Says | 3/30/1938 | See Source »

...resounding as that which Scarlett O'Hara deals to Ashley Wilkes to give Gone With the Wind its real start. When Pres goes, Julie is confident he will come back. A year later he does return, with a Northern bride (Margaret Lindsay). With every vixenish wile she can think of, Julie tries to satisfy her longing and her hate. When a duel born of her scheming results in Buck Cantrell's death, even her motherly aunt (Fay Bainter) calls Julie a Jezebel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Popeye the Magnificent | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

...like ants in a flour bin; lawyers representing the workers charged their clients some 50% of the piddling compensations collected; a committee took the matter up before Congress. Net result: Bill blocked, investigation blocked; the workers left their flour bin, some continuing to die like ants, some beginning to think like Poet Rukeyser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rukeyser 2 | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

...inside union is in large measure the product of misapprehensions caused by the lengthy negotiations between the University and the waitresses. Unfounded rumors about the University's attitude arising from the seeming impasse probably led some forward-looking employees to think that Harvard would appreciate an inside union and reward its founders. Also a natural desire for prestige would induce a man despairing of achieving prominence in the A.F. of L. to join in building a new union...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LABOR'S LAMENT | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

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