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Word: american (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: You have been making a lot of printers' errors -the Greeks have the real lowdown on how to spell American names to produce the right pronunciation: ΦΟΖ ΜΟŤΒΙΤΟΝ ΝΙΟŤΣ -Fox Movietone News ΚΟΛΝΤΟŤÏΝ -The last name of Mr. Samuel Goldwyn ΜΠΙΛΛŤ ΝΤΟΒ -Billie Dove ΑΛ ΤΖΟΛΣΟΝ -Al Jolson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 16, 1929 | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

Other Davis immigration proposals: preference under the quota to immigrants who could supply U. S. occupational needs: extension of quota restrictions to North, Central, South American countries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Labor Report | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...active politician, he worked hard through the American Legion for the Hoover nomination, campaigned through the Southwest, was the Hoovers' house guest at Inauguration. Favorite Hurley campaign expression: "A greater number of people have been happier under the American flag for a greater length of time than under the flag of any other nation." This phrase was ghost-written for him but, with characteristic onrushingness and vitality, he made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hurley of War | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...when great Raymond Poincaré made budget punctuality the crux of his saviorship of the franc. Last week the savior's smart disciple and successor, Prime Minister André Tardieu. battled to equal the record of his chief, battled also to vindicate his own nickname, "The Most American of Frenchmen" (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Tardieu the Tamer | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...American Government feels that the respect with which China and Russia will hereafter be held in the good opinion of the world will necessarily in great measure depend upon the way in which they carry out [their] most sacred promises [as signatories of the Kellogg Pact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Scorn for Stimson | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

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