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Word: weekes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mutual dislike between Mr. Roosevelt and Vice President Garner has now reached the point where each hates the other's guts. Said Mr. Roosevelt last week to one visitor: "Old John is the best candidate the Republicans have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Smiling Sphinx | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...This week Cook County Hospital was restored to A. M. A.'s approved list...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 18, 1939 | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

ITEM MISERY HARBOR TIME THIS WEEK IS AMAZING. . . . AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH APPOINTMENT CITIZENS' COMMITTEE, HAS NO REPRESENTATIVE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 18, 1939 | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...Franklin Roosevelt Joe Kennedy saw last week was not the fractious, irritated, harried man who sat at the same cluttered desk last summer. A remarkable change has come over the President: once again he is relaxed, confident, charming. Gone is his captious attitude to the U. S. press. Old Mark Sullivan, dean of Washington columnists, noted the change a month ago, hopefully analyzed the President's bubbly jocularity as a signal he has decided not to run again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Smiling Sphinx | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...effect: Go on home if you want. Airplanes are always handy. But to Charles Linza McNary of Salem, Ore., Republican leader in the Senate, Franklin Roosevelt said: Stay here. Since then wise, weary Charlie McNary has constantly counseled with the President, breakfasts at the White House sometimes thrice a week, always entering from the Treasury side to dodge reporters. To the President Charles McNary has given many pieces of his mind, but only one piece has leaked out. Over the scrambled eggs one day Mr. Roosevelt grumbled about the pressure on him to say what he will do next convention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Smiling Sphinx | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

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