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Word: victorye (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senator Pittman's blackjack was potent. The harassed Senate compromised by voting back the 1937 silver price for domestic silver, barring further purchases of foreign silver (from China and Mexico). More surprising, it gave Senator Glass his victory, voted 47-to-31 to end the President's power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Lumber Pile | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

Swatow. Japan's victory-of-the-week over China was at the treaty port of Swatow, 180 miles north of Hong Kong. Here Japan also suffered a minor diplomatic defeat from western nations. Once a city of 178,000, Swatow had been bombed by Japanese planes daily for the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Ultimatum and Blockade | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

3. Refused to recognize Franco's victory.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Current Affairs Test, Jun. 26, 1939 | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

Ability of the Japanese Army to push the undeclared war to a declared victory depends to a considerable extent on their ability to catch and kill one man. That man is the smoky-eyed Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, symbol of the belated unification of China. For two years this perambulating symbol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Background For War: ASIA - Chiang's War | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

This is just 1,000 times what the first Waring orchestra drew down for its first engagement, in Tyrone, Pa., 21 years ago. Fred, 18, was then in Penn State, studying architecture and engineering. His younger brother Tom and the boy next door, a dark, antic trap-drummer named Poley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Fred Waring, Inc. | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

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