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Word: tilles (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crew. Ambassador Steinhardt pressed for more information. Russia announced that the German crew had been released. That would suggest that the ship should sail under her German crew within 24 hours. Ambassador Steinhardt pressed for more information, tried to telephone Murmansk, sat at his desk till 5 a.m., daily prodded the Foreign Commissariat, tried to get permission to charter a plane to send an Embassy secretary to Murmansk, once got Murmansk on the telephone, only to be cut off-all for information about the welfare of the crew. But this information Russia apparently could not or would not provide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: The Law | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...night last week a little brown-haired woman, shy and mild of manner, went quietly to her bed in a small private room inside the locked doors and barred windows of the Arizona State Hospital for the insane. Not till 11 o'clock next morning did attendants jerk down the covers to see why 34-year-old Winnie Ruth Judd wasn't up & about. They found rags, shoes, bottles, soap neatly arranged as a Mrs. Judd-size dummy, but no Mrs. Judd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Tigress Loose | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Thus it would be impossible to keep the entire library open on the Sabbath. What is feasible, however, is to keep the reading, periodical, and catalogue rooms open on Sunday from two in the afternoon till ten in the evening. Since most of the work done Sundays, by undergraduates at least, is course work, the necessary books and magazines would be made readily available if these three rooms were kept open all afternoon and evening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LIBRARY: FOR UNDERGRADUATES AND GRADUATES ALIKE | 10/31/1939 | See Source »

...York City, every week, some 30,000 people attend meetings which Jews do well to avoid. At the meetings, held by groups with names like "Christian Front" and "Christian Mobilizers," the streets of upper Manhattan and The Bronx resound with cries of "Buy Christian," "Down with the Jews," "Wait till Hitler comes over here." Only the left-wing press has paid much attention to these gatherings, although in recent months they have resulted in more than 250 arrests and some 85 actual and suspended sentences. (Example last week: Patrick Kiernan, 38, reliefer; three months in the workhouse for an anti...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: No Picketing | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

Latest Michigan entry into the war game is Hayes Body Corp., which has had a less than mediocre record since 1929, when it lost the job of making Chrysler bodies. Having just refilled its till with about $300,000 of new private money and $450,000 of RFC money, Hayes proposes to pay back this arm of the Government by selling to another arm-the War and Navy Departments. Its new lines: aircraft parts, ordnance, armored truck bodies. To help win a place on Assistant Secretary of War Louis Johnson's clubby suppliers' list, Hayes Body went last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: War Babies | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

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