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Word: worke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: In reading your magazine of April 29, I note on page 26 under the caption "Life, Tom Mix last week agreed to quit cinema and work for the 101 Ranch Wild West Show for the rest of his career. Alleged inducement: $15,000 per week." Mr. Tom Mix has a signed contract with the Sells Floto Circus Company for his services starting on May 26 and lasting-I hope forever. . . . ZACK TERRELL...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 20, 1929 | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

...things for Bishop Brent!" But the khaki-clothed Bishop would not stop to eat. He had lunched with an Igorot in his mountain hut. He pushed on with a pleasant word to his furry companion who bore his canonicals and pajamas. "The Bishop," explained the General, "doesn't work among the Christian Filipinos. He says the Catholic God is the same as our Episcopalian God. He confines his efforts to Americans, English and the savages, who are heathen. The Methodists, Baptists and other Protestant pastors are sore on the Bishop for that. They're hot after the Catholic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 20, 1929 | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

...brought forth its tariff bill and to the Hoover eye it did not resemble the article he had hoped for (see p. 10). To find out what was wrong with it, to gauge its potential effect upon Business and the Cost of Living, the President set expert analysts to work. His own first impression of the duties on shingles, lumber, cement and sugar was not favorable but he withheld formal opinion until he was better fortified with facts. Trouble aplenty was in the Senate where the Republicans were quarreling among themselves, to the jeopardy of the Administration's whole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Set for the Summer | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

...Work Done. The Senate of the U. S. last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The Senate Week May 20, 1929 | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

...present Commission, to recommend a change in rate, must conduct a long investigation into foreign production cost. When the inquiry is over, the need for the change has generally passed, or increased beyond the Commission's measurement. The new bill proposes that the Commission accelerate its work by studying only the "condition of competition" in the domestic market and making its recommendations thereon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TARIFF: Bill Out | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

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