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...even as the House brandished the ax, a highbrowed, heavy-jowled Congressman from South Dakota was rushing to avert it. To those who best remembered him as a vociferous pre-Pearl Harbor isolationist, Karl Mundt seemed a strange rescuer. In 1939 he had suggested tartly that Americans spend more time "minding our own business instead of . . . meddling in the governments of Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: The American Twang | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

...Pitt was born & bred a mountain man. By the time he was knee-high to a fox pup, he knew nearly all there was to know about handling an ax and a rifle. He grew up long-legged and straight as a tulip tree, standing 6 feet 3 in his bare feet. He had a vast nose, a scraggly beard and a wild look in his eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: 55 Minutes from Broadway | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

...nicely timed plotting and mock style of its many predecessors; its world, as usual, is a world all its own. Blandings Castle is the scene; present are Lord Emsworth, who resembles a heap of old clothes in the moonlight, his prize pig, his battle-ax of a sister and various featherbrained members of a younger generation intent on strategies of love. Full Moon lacks the fresh epithets and fruity exuberance of Wodehouse's most inventive stories, but its nitwitticisms will satisfy the addicted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nitwitticisms | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

...Senate, too, had time to swing the economy ax. The Administration had requested an appropriation of $1,779 million for the Labor Department and the Federal Security Agency. The House had already knocked off $95 million. The Senate lopped off another $8 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Congress' Week, May 19, 1947 | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

...made it plain that Jed had always rubbed him the wrong way. As a Congressman Jed Johnson, he said, was always asking for petty favors. To make sure they were granted he frequently threatened to swing an economy ax on Ickes' Interior Department. Ickes had finally decided that there was only one way out-to boot Jed upstairs as hard as he could. That was why he had got Franklin Roosevelt to offer Jed the judgeship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORICAL NOTES: Now It Can Be Told | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

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