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Individually most of my countrymen are too honest and too inept to filch anything smaller than the moomoo's egg. Nationally Bulgaria has never shone in the badger game of territorial expansion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 24, 1941 | 2/24/1941 | See Source »

...full of corn as a silo. Dear Mom recounts the adventures of an addlepated rookie named Homer Stubbs, and his highborn pal Red Foster, son of a factory owner, who helps him badger a tough top-sergeant called Monihan. Devised by stocky, moon-faced Robert Newton Brown, CBS program director, and writer W. Ray Wilson, Dear Mom is supervised by Major Frank Collins, a morale officer on the executive staff of the 6th Corps Area. The program whips into a description of the joys of camp life, introduces Homer scratching away at a letter to his mother. Its first episode...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Dear Mom | 2/10/1941 | See Source »

Meantime aggressive Mr. Dewey moved toward Wisconsin, routing defeatism as he went. Handsome, happy, healthy as a horse, Tom Dewey celebrated his 38th birthday last week, laid out a speechmaking path that would whirl him through the Badger State in a two-day, 20-stop gale just before Primary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: Wisconsin Primaries | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

...beyond the walls. But the tune that dampened the eyes of Warden Herbert ("Cap") Smith and beefy Deputy Tom Meikrantz was a Chinese prisoner's song, written and sung in quavery, North China dialect by Canton-born William Yun. (Yun was jailed six weeks ago for working the badger game on a wealthy countryman named...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Carols at Cherry Hill | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...Theodore Badger, President of the New England Grenfell Association. Ray Dennett of Phillips Brooks House, and several "wops"--With-Out-Pay workers--will attend a dinner given for Grenfell and his daughter this evening at the Faculty Club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GRENFELL MAKES ONLY APPEARANCE IN BOSTON | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

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