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Word: verbal (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President's "non-political" speeches -had spent $165,000. By the time Alf Landon makes his final broadcast from 10 p. m. to 11 p. m. on election eve the Republicans will have incurred an additional NBC bill of $90.000. And when Franklin Roosevelt gets in his last verbal licks an hour later, the Democratic NBC bill will have risen another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: Money, Money, Money | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

...pillage' of Church property [in Soviet Russia] and protest against such 'sacrilege' in the name of religion, every class-conscious English worker must be laughing in their faces." It was Journalist Radek who, until a few short weeks ago, made for Joseph Stalin trenchant verbal replies to Adolf Hitler, for the Soviet Dictator has had no stomach to speak out himself and risk war with Germany. Of Hitler, scathing Radek has said: "The donkey's ears stick out! His Nazi doctrine is utter humbug. Non sensical!" Last week Communists were saying that should brilliant Karl Radek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Journalist Jailed | 10/19/1936 | See Source »

...haven't already been won over, go to the show for the sake of the program, which you can't very well get otherwise. It was written by a clever man whose wit was just a bit too fast for him. A sample: "as fast on the verbal comeback as a handball...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 10/10/1936 | See Source »

...South China after three months of the most ferocious verbal strife between the Nanking Government and Kwangsi Province, with a formal military ultimatum being issued every few days by Premier Chiang to the Kwangsi generals or vice versa, sudden peace came this week. Instead of Generalissimo Chiang arriving in Canton with overwhelming force to master Kwangsi, he persuaded Kwangsi General Li Tsung-Jen to assume the office of Pacification Commissioner of Kwangsi under instructions from Nanking to pacify himself thoroughly and send no more ultimatums. Only logical assumption was that Li had finally got out of Chiang the bribe running...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: British Gift | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

Said International Guild Secretary Jonathan Eddy: "We regard the News management's verbal agreement through an intermediary group as a contractual obligation on the part of the Hearst management. . . . When they went out. men of long experience were working for as little as $15 and $18 a week. Now men of three years' experience are promised a minimum of $40 per week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Victory on Points | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

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