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Word: want (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...kept alone. By week's end, when he departed in his big official Packard for a Michigan visit, he was fairly well rested. His nose was red, his freckles refulgent. He felt he had conscientiously obeyed the orders of his Chief, who had firmly told him: "Frank, I want you to get out of town [Washington]. . . ." But he could not relax entirely, for of all the top men in the U. S. Government, not excepting even the President, none was engaged upon tasks more pressing and important than Frank Murphy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Lay Bishop | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

Count Ciano could guess what the three had to say, and he obviously did not want to hear it: he must do all in his power to stop the rolling stone before it gathered an avalanche to swallow them all, as Mari of Peace Mussolini did this time last year when he persuaded Hitler to call off his Army before Munich. Count Ciano's answer, heartily concurred in by Premier Mussolini...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Peace on Earth | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

...Network in the Far West, Help Thy Neighbor in two and a half years has helped place 13,000 persons. Chicago's I Need a Job, over WGN and later WCFL, has placed some 2,400 in less than a year. Last week Detroit's I Want a Job, conducted by the Michigan State Employment Service over WWJ, turned its first birthday. It had placed a modest 225 of 346 applicants who appeared on the program. More interesting than its 225 successes were some of the men for whom it found no jobs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: I Want a Job | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

...finds herself in the Technicolor land of Oz. Homesick, she goes in search of the Wizard of Oz to ask him how to get back to Kansas. Along the way she meets a Straw Man (Ray Bolger), a Tin Woodman (Jack Haley), a Cowardly Lion (Bert Lahr). They too want to see the Wizard. The Straw Man seeks a brain, the Woodman a heart, the Cowardly Lion, courage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 21, 1939 | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

Livestock producers think they could get higher prices for their best beef if the public knew what it was buying, demanded quality meats. Today the Government grades not more than 9% of U. S. slaughtered beef. Producers want it all graded. Month ago new Government grading standards became effective. Last week the American Institute of Cooperation (booster of farmers' cooperative associations) met in Chicago, heard about the new rules from an expert: Sleeter Bull, Associate Professor of Meats, University of Illinois...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOODS: The Tough Sex | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

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