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Word: tuneful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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After 43 minutes "reconsideration," the House flouted the President by repassing the Bonus Loan Bill to the tune of 328-to-79, a surplus of 56 votes over the required two-thirds majority. Not a single Democrat was among the 79 who supported the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Needy Served First | 3/9/1931 | See Source »

When, about midnight, a congratulatory telephone call came through from New York's Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker, the Mayor of Chicago sang him this song to the tune of the "Sidewalks of New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Again, Thompson | 3/9/1931 | See Source »

...otherwise; 3) "we should end worse off than we began." Unlike his associates, however, Democrat Young favored a compromise, favored upping the loan value of service certificates (now 22½%) for the benefit of really needy cases. The Republican committeemen were thoroughly startled to hear a proposal so out of tune with the other songs of Big Business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Young Plan | 2/16/1931 | See Source »

...Lawyer Kresel still holds the headlines and double columns of the press. Yesterday's type, however, bore a slightly different tune, that of the prosecutor pleading "not guilty" to charges of misappropriating funds of a now deceased bank. And as Mr. Kresel was formally indicated with promises of a speedy trial, the baited judiciary may have relaxed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOK OF THE JUDGES | 2/13/1931 | See Source »

...Protestant wants to hear Protestant national services on Sunday, he may tune in thus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Air Worship | 2/9/1931 | See Source »

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