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Word: personalize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they could, readily admitted that their roster included a Lieutenant Commander Toshio Miyazaki who was "in America a few years ago as an attache of the Japanese Embassy" and was currently serving as instructor at Tokyo's Naval College. "But that this Miyazaki is the person named in the indictment is problematical," they blandly declared, "since Toshio Miyazaki is a common Japanese name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Toshio & Thompson | 7/6/1936 | See Source »

...Sting No. 4. After the Emperor had given Geneva to understand for several days that he would not plead Ethiopia's cause himself before the Assembly, abruptly at the last moment the King of Kings announced that he was entering the fray in person, will "fight to the last gasp of breath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE: Jig Up? | 7/6/1936 | See Source »

...commission merchants with a futures business have to register with the Commission. Among the Commission's wide discretionary powers are the right to delay or advance contract settlements to prevent month-end squeezes, and the right to fix limits on the amount of trading by any one person except in legitimate hedging operations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Commodities Controlled | 6/29/1936 | See Source »

...lessen the problem of proving that a person "is violating" the law, past tenses were belatedly inserted in the old Act. It was on that technicality that the courts tossed out the Government's case against Speculator Arthur Cutten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Commodities Controlled | 6/29/1936 | See Source »

...bungalow a 15-lb. snapping turtle with "Alf Landon" painted on its back. To commemorate the 150th anniversary of Lynchburg, Va.'s city charter, the U. S. Treasury consented to issue coins bearing the likeness of Virginia Senator Carter Glass, who will thus become the second person in U. S. history so honored during life, the first so honored alone. In 1926 Calvin Coolidge shared a half dollar with George Washington to mark the sesquicentennial of the Declaration of Independence Picking a summer house at Saranac Lake, N. Y., Scientist Albert Einstein remarked that he wanted it to escape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 29, 1936 | 6/29/1936 | See Source »

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