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...Absolute baloney!" roared rambunctious Patrick Benedict McGinnis last week to a report that he was leaving the presidency of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad. Less than five hours later, McGinnis ate his baloney, said that he would quit his $75,000-a-year job because a "splinter group" of New Haven directors did not like the way he was running the railroad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: Finis McGinnis | 1/30/1956 | See Source »

...interest in politics, became a local Democratic leader (York County, resting on the Mason-Dixon line, has always been sympathetic to the Democratic Party). It was only natural that his seven children should consume large slabs of politics along with the eppel sas kuuche, schmierkäse and Lebanon baloney at their father's groaning dinner table. As a teenager, George chauffeured voters on Election Day, and while he was in college, he "worked the polls" for his sister-in-law's father, who was running for the York County Commission. (He won.) In 1946 George became county...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PENNSYLVANIA: Voter's Farmer | 11/15/1954 | See Source »

...trade. At the end of the talks, a Chinese trade official, Lu Shuchang, told newsmen gratefully that British ships were already helping to bring steel, heavy machinery and other strategic materials from Western Europe to Red China. In London, British officials resorted to an Americanism to deny the assertion: "Baloney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: The Lotus Eaters | 8/30/1954 | See Source »

...come to no other conclusion than that you deliberately made your Notre Dame football hero cover picture your corniest in years, filled the story with a collection to end all collections of the humdrum idiocies of professional sports, spicing it with the phony baloney, barstool oratory, synthetic manliness, and parroting of "statistics" and "history" by the sports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Man of the Year | 11/30/1953 | See Source »

...self-styled author of "Broadway Baloney Ballads" campaigned for books for Korea with a hastily scrawled poem...

Author: By William M. Beecher, | Title: Council Draws Protest, Praise For Statement | 5/27/1953 | See Source »

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