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Word: throughness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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>Mr. Roosevelt made a point of sleeping through Herr Hitler's speech at 6 a. m. E. S. T. So far as he was concerned, Hitler was "stopped" for the time being and the President of the U. S. was busy at home. He had a World's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Mankind Invited | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

Ideally the President's plan would shuffle his agencies physically as well as functionally into streamlined new quarters, not only in Washington but out through the land where their scattered regional offices now cost citizens dear in time to find them, deal separately with them. Affected by the altered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Plan No. 1 | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

Last month the frail body of Hirosi Saito, Japan's late Ambassador to the U. S., arrived at Yokohama in state on the U. S. cruiser Astoria. Japan's people were touched. Last week the U. S. battle fleet eased itself through the Panama Canal, sailed into the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Few Reasons | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

"An obvious step will be the affording to each nation of a sufficient gold base through a central agency for the establishment of a sound national currency. . . . Obviously, also, a large portion of the fund would be used for compensation in relation to the transfer to the 'have-not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Neylam Plan | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

The man chosen to sweeten NLRB is a merry, contemplative cherub of 56. Now grey, paunchy and averse to all forms of physical effort, he worked his way through the University of Wisconsin by cooking flapjacks for the One-Minute Coffee Shop in Madison. Between cakes & coffee he absorbed the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Two Nice Men | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

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