Word: used
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Divo was in Panama City during the month of September 1936 and at that time arrangements were made for his continued use of Essolube Motor Oil for the Northern lap of his trip from Buenos Aires to New York. From this point contact was made with our representatives in San Jose, Managua, Tegucigalpa, San Salvador and Guatemala City requesting that the proper courtesies be extended upon his arrival. The Huasteca Petroleum Co. of Mexico was also notified with the request that they in turn contact associate companies across the U. S. border. We, therefore, were most interested in reading...
...reader of LIFE, I recognize it as being ostensibly devoted to the pictorial arts, and am willing to permit it an artist's freedom in the use of words. But as a reader of TIME, I have learned to expect notably correct writing. Consequently when that peculiar word photogenic showed itself in LIFE some time ago, I was inclined to be lenient. Now that it has appeared in TIME (Oct. 25, p. 25), I am inclined to protest...
...both Houses by their clerks, the message started with a discussion of the business recession and legislative means toward ending it. Said the President: "The fundamental situation is not to be compared with the far different conditions of 1929. . . . Obviously an immediate task is to try to increase the use of private capital to increase employment. . . . Private enterprise, with co-operation on the part of Government, can advance to higher levels of industrial activity than those reached earlier this year. . . . Such advance will assure balanced budgets. . . . If private enterprise does not respond, Government must take up the slack...
...fireside chat last month, the President called for the "early enactment" of laws to 1) control crop surpluses, 2) regulate wages and hours in industry, 3) reorganize the executive branch of the Government, 4) permit regional planning for better use of national resources, 5) modernize anti-trust legislation. In his message this week, he again enumerated the first four, omitted the last...
...lights of cars leading columns, enabled it to catch the slow-moving Red army at Mineral Wells. P. I. D. roundly defeated it in a sham engagement of which one result was the capture of real horses and mules for which P. I. D. had no earthly use. Next day, its task accomplished, the "streamlined division" turned back to San Antonio. Texas traffic laws do not limit the length of moving rows of cars. In one huge serpentine column which stretched out to 65 miles long at a speed of 30-35 rn.p.h...