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Word: willing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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¶ Told the press he will ask Congress to extend beyond next June the State Department's powers to conclude reciprocal trade agreements, thus coming to the aid of beleaguered Secretary Cordell Hull. >Mourned the death of President Juan Arosemena of Panama (see p. 57). ^ Presented to Mrs. Richard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Green Christmas | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

The Smith Committee adroitly dodged challenging labor's rights or employers' wrongs. With its tongue in its cheek and its eye on the record, it examined the labor relations of the experts on labor relations, asked the old Roman Juvenal's question: "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes" or...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Labor's Safeguardians | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

For $40,000 the Masons bought a block of tenements in South Philadelphia. With another $40,000 and Negro labor they will transform the block into a low-cost housing project for Negroes, with 1-2-3 room, air-conditioned apartments built around a central fresh air court. This community...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Sweepstakes | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

¶ Volatile Senator Burton K. Wheeler, Montana Democrat, was advanced by stolid Senator Edwin Johnson, Colorado Democrat, as a "liberal candidate" who might make it unnecessary "for the President to run against his will in 1940."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: 1940 | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

¶ Appraising Western reaction to Tom Dewey's first G.O.P. campaign speech last fortnight (TIME, Dec. 18), Governor Harold E. Stassen of Minnesota dryly reported "rather a deep interest in what Mr. Dewey's policies will be." Aspirant Dewey in his second full-dress speech last week

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: 1940 | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

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