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Word: william (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Salem, Ore., went Senate GOP Chief Charles Linza McNary; House GOP Chief Joseph William Martin studied timetables to Hawaii; House Democrat Chief Sam Rayburn headed home to his beloved shorthorn cattle in Bonham, Texas. By mutual agreement the leaders decided that events did not justify their remaining in Washington to counsel with Franklin Roosevelt as had been promised when the special session assembled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Home Again | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...then vote the bill through as is. The House version of the Great Debate sounded hotter than the Senate's -chiefly because of the necessary brevity of the speeches-but actually meant no more. That the vote was in the bag was conclusively demonstrated when wily old Speaker William Brockman Bankhead, Hamlet of the House, took the floor for a passionate defense of the measure: near the finish-post, he always cheers the winner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: F. O. B. Washington | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

Ignoring Wendell Willkie, Chairman Dies applied himself to the wobbly reputation of C. I. O.'s National Maritime Union. A burly, tattooed, gap-toothed ex-Communist and ousted union official, William C. McCuistion, testified that 28 N. M. U. officers (including President Joe Curran) were Communists, that 93% of the 40,000 members were deluded nonCommunists. Witness McCuistion's mother, crinkled Mrs. Dolly Crawford, declared that Joe Curran once told her just how Communists would take over the U. S. by passive infiltration into unions, Federal offices, etc. On the same day that Mrs. Crawford testified, Joe Curran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: Hero's Week | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...William J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics, announced yesterday that a new Pocock eight oared shell has been given to the University by Robert F. Herrick '90, great benefactor of Harvard rowing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Boat Given | 11/8/1939 | See Source »

With torch light parades and speeches, City Councilor Michael A. Sullivan celebrated his victory over that "hatchet man" William H. Flanagan. Mike was re-elected Ward 6 councilor by a safe plurality, sweeping Flanagan in his own home precincts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lyons, Carr Win In Local Voting as Maguire Is Beaten | 11/8/1939 | See Source »

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