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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Canadian-born Actor Raymond ("Abe Lincoln") Massey, veteran of World War I, reported for duty in Ottawa, was given a majority, assigned to the adjutant general's office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Past Masters | 11/30/1942 | See Source »

...ordeal of Robert Sherwood began last week. The tall, thin, solemn playwright (Reunion in Vienna, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, etc.) made his first request to Congress for money ($26,000,000) to carry on the foreign propaganda work of his Overseas Branch of the Office of War Information. Members of the House appropriations subcommittee wanted to know what had been accomplished with the money (from the President's emergency fund) he had spent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: U. S. Propaganda | 10/12/1942 | See Source »

...Poor Joe," crowed Conn. "He's going on 29 and hasn't had a fight since he knocked out Abe Simon last March. In my book Joe's a dead pigeon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scrap for the Army | 9/21/1942 | See Source »

...breath of pursuit is personified by Raymond (Abe Lincoln) Massey. As a Nazi Intelligence officer, Actor Massey is commendably uncommunicative: throughout most of the picture he speaks only German. So do numerous other members of the cast. This is hard on the non-German-speaking customers, but it does not faze Cinemactor Flynn. Says he as the picture ends: "Now for Australia and a crack at the Japs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 17, 1942 | 8/17/1942 | See Source »

Left. By the late Sir Abe Bailey, South African sportsman and gold mine tycoon: an estate valued at more than $2,000,000. His will leaves a quarter of it in trust "for the advancement, strengthening and development of the South African people," a $40,000 yearly income for his widow, and $400 each to Winston Churchill, the Duchess of Newcastle, the Marquess of Londonderry, and Horse Trainer Reginald...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 20, 1942 | 7/20/1942 | See Source »

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