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Word: williams (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...Texas boom has developed. Recently, Thomas Griffith, TIME'S Senior Editor for National Affairs, and Robert Elson, chief of TIME Inc.'s U.S. and Canadian News Service, went to Texas to see for themselves what is going on there. They were taken in tow by William Johnson, head of our Dallas bureau...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, May 9, 1949 | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

...Picked old New Dealer William H. Davis, onetime chairman of the War Labor Board, to head the Atomic Energy Commission's new labor relations panel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Who Shall Be Saved? | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

...third time in its 14 years in power, Canada's Liberal government was about to go to the country in a general election. For the first time in 30 years it would be without the leadership of William Lyon Mackenzie King. Last November he had given up the Prime Ministry; last week, having announced that he would not stand for reelection, he ended 33 years as a Member of Parliament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Leadership Test | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

...William Randolph Hearst turned 86. He stayed quietly in his home in Beverly Hills, while all five of his sons gathered round for the occasion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 9, 1949 | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

...President James Monroe Smith, a Long man, was sentenced to from eight to 24 years in prison for embezzlement. L.S.U.'s last president, William ("The Conqueror") Hatcher retired on grounds of health after a series of administration-faculty disagreements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Carry On | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

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