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...market a few years ago by famed old Parker Bros. Inc. was a game called Monopoly, ingeniously designed to appeal to the baldest acquisitive instincts. It was an instantaneous success. Last week President Roosevelt, from motives as mixed as they were imperative, dusted off an older and political form of Monopoly which has been played by successive Administrations with varying degrees of enthusiasm for upward of half a century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Attack on Oligopoly | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

...toward two prime phases of U. S. life-business and politics. For months the fastest-selling non-card game in the U. S. has been Monopoly. Full of real estate, utilities, railroads, mortgages, foreclosures, rents, taxes, maintenance, assessments, it is a parlor pastime generally calculated to appeal to the baldest acquisitive instincts. Monopoly boomed through the Christmas season, was last week selling faster than ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Monopoly & Politics | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

...period of depression unique in the annals of Ina Claire. Born at Washington, D. C. in 1892 and named Ina Fagan, she had become by 1915 a distinguished performer in the Ziegfeld Follies. Ten years later, she was the first comedienne of the Manhattan stage, able to give her baldest line the glitter of an epigram. Her first venture in Hollywood was an undistinguished effort for Pathe called The Awful Truth. Her next was a marriage with John Gilbert which resulted in such frantic publicity for the last celebrated lover of the silent cinema that it made Actress Claire look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 20, 1931 | 7/20/1931 | See Source »

Lynn Joseph Frazier of North Dakota, whose head is the shiniest and baldest in the Senate. Out of that head came the startling proposal to abolish war by constitutional amendment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Insurgents Resurgent | 1/26/1931 | See Source »

...hand in his pocket, straightened his shoulders and let a small boyish smile start. Next, bulking solidly behind the President, was Secretary Herbert Clark Hoover (Commerce) who casually plunged each hand into a trouser pocket (without brushing his coat back) and squinted pleasantly. Secretary William M. Jardine (Agriculture), baldest Cabinet member, put his right hand in his trouser pocket (with coat swung back), hid his left hand behind him and gazed seriously, straight ahead. Secretary Hubert Work (Interior), but for whose mustache and Secretary Mellon's this would be the first clean-shaven Cabinet in U. S. history, frowned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Dinner for Ten | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

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