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"Quite a Job." Last week was a typical one in the life of the fast-moving First Lady. Monday morning she arose shortly after 7. She "has never had a sick day in her life," at 49 continues her morning exercises. She had a swim with the President, breakfasted at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Eleanor Everywhere | 11/20/1933 | See Source »

Only when Moe Rosenberg was indicted by a Chicago grand jury for failure to pay $65,000 taxes, did the full light of publicity fall upon Mr. Rosenberg's lurid past: a confession of guilt to an arson charge in 1913; a 20-month sentence to Leavenworth in 1915...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Tax Weapon | 5/1/1933 | See Source »

Sirs: What I don't like about England, since Mr. Sydney Walton of London wants to know, is the way every Englishman gets around sooner or later to saying: "Now about these War debts. We're perfectly willing to cancel what the Italians and French owe us. Why...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 29, 1929 | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

John Baskett is responsible for an edition of the King James Version. This work was far from accurate. The seventh commandment, as corrected ,by Mr. Baskett, read simply "Thou shaft commit adultery"; his edition, which was soon suppressed, became famous as "the basketful of errors."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Book | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

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