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Word: triede (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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So down went Housing, 193-166. And down with it went the House's bloodlust. By Saturday, when Adams sent back the Deficiency bill, the House was relaxed, approved it swiftly. Leaders tried to soothe the session's accumulated seven-months bitterness. In the House they succeeded, in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Blood on the Saddle | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

Tony Stralla said the Rex alone cost him $600,000. Mayor Fletcher Bowron (whose closing of Los Angeles gambling nightspots last year vastly improved Tony's trade) estimated the Rex's "take" at $300,000 per month. When local officials tried to shoo him away or close him...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Chance on the High Seas | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

Last week Parliament behaved very much like the U. S. Congress, except that it did everything backwards. Congress wanted to go home (see p. 11). Parliament wanted to stay in session. In Washington "Government" whips had tried to keep rebellious Congressmen in session to pass the President's bills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Reverse | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

>One night, after drinking a little too much, Reporter Bellairs tried to drive a horse & buggy across the Mississippi River.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Old Timers | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

Last week he saw one of his pet dreams come true. For 18 years Jimmy Rice tried to persuade the U.S. Government to finance a world's fair of poultry. When the Government began saying no, he organized in 1921 the first world's poultry fair at The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Cacklefest | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

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