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Word: thinke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your May 15 issue of TIME you stated that OHIO has produced seven out of our country's 32 Presidents. I think that TIME has made one of its few errors in making this statement. Try as I will, I can find only the following six occupants of the White House originating in Ohio. They are, in order of their administrations: Wm. H. Harrison, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, William McKinley, William H. Taft and Warren G. Harding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 29, 1939 | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

...cutting taxes: "There is a hullabaloo for the repeal of the undistributed earnings tax. You would think that this was the principal deterrent to business today. Yet it is a simple fact that out of $1,100,-000,000 paid to the Federal Government by corporations, less than $20,000,000 conies to the Government from the undistributed earnings tax-less than 2% of the total. . . . I am wholly willing to have this $20,000,000 tax . .. repealed on two simple conditions, which are based on principle. . . ." (The two: raise it from the big corporations, find another substitute for taxing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Critics Damned | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

...didn't think there would be ladies " (Flash! went a flashlight bulb.) "I thought you might want to ask questions." (Flash! Flash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: His Majesty's Press Agent | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

...didn't think there would be ladies." (Flash! Flash! Flash!) Sir Ronald turned to the photographers perched on the staircase behind him. "Haven't you had enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: His Majesty's Press Agent | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

Democrat Martin Leo Sweeney of Cleveland, Ohio: "When this Administration can spend . . . almost $300,000 or more to entertain a British King and Queen next month, I think I can afford to vote this extra help for my office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Scared Cats | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

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