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Word: want (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...issue in North Carolina, as I see it is the effort now being made to induce the people to vote the way they don't want to vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Southern Push | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

Hotly pressed last week was the annual battle between statesmen who want to balance the Budget of France by the first of the year and politicians who would like to go on talking about it until early spring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Budget Battle | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

Queried an eager correspondent of Henry Ford over the telephone: "Do you know, sir, that the Chinese are sending you an invitation? They want you to become Honorary Economic Advisor to their new National Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Ford First | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

...almost forgotten football in the heat of all this politics. But I know you will want to hear about...

Author: By Joe Forecast, | Title: PRESIDENTIAL AUGURIES GET JOE'S PUBLIC AGOG | 10/27/1928 | See Source »

...last week spoke to his employees as follows: "During the years gone by the Erie Railroad has been better known as a freight road than as a carrier of passengers. Perhaps the impression got about that the railroad did not welcome passenger traffic. Whatever it may have been, I want to make it plain now that the Erie is a railroad, not a freight road or a passenger road, but a railroad serving its public with all the kinds of transportation the public needs. We not only want passenger business; we are going after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Index: Oct. 22, 1928 | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

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