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Word: referring (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House of Commons last week, Malcolm MacDonald, Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, gravely announced that in State papers His Majesty's Government would henceforth refer to the ex-Irish Free State as "Airy." One or two parliamentary eyebrows rose but no M. P. questioned his statement. In Dublin, however, Eamon de Valera looked down his long nose with annoyance. The correct pronunciation of Eire, he firmly announced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EIRE: Airy | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

...finance companies did not hire Mr. Croy. I, as counsel for Commercial Credit Co., appeared before Judge Geiger in the proceedings to which you refer. The record of those proceedings clearly shows that Commercial Credit Co. had nothing whatever to do with the employment of Mr. Croy. Neither it nor any of its representatives knew anything about the matter. Counsel for another finance company took sole and personal responsibility for the employment of Mr. Croy, and he stated to the Court that he had not consulted with any other company when he employed Mr. Croy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Index (Cont'd) | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

...apparent at the end of 1936 . . . that forces were at work which threatened the equilibrium between wages and prices. Then, in the first quarter of 1937, came the development primarily responsible for destroying the existing balance and altering the whole course of events. I refer to the aggressive labor movement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Hindsight | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

...information used by you in the Jan. 10 issue of TIME, for we feel that there is a grave error somewhere. You said that Mr. C. D. White, our Mayor, once remarked that only "cheapskates" come to Atlantic City. Our Mayor is entirely too much of a gentleman to refer to any convention as a group of "cheapskates," and most certainly no person in this city in his right mind would so deliberately offend any organization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 24, 1938 | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

...company's business increased." Mr. Bernays promptly repudiated the charge. Said he: "Sitting next to [Western Union's board chairman] Newcomb Carlton one evening at a testimonial dinner, where I had met him for the first time, I suggested that Mr. Carlton ask the chairman to refer to telegrams he was reading aloud as Western Union messages instead of telegrams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Propaganda Battle | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

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