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But Douglas kept at it. One day he turned up with a basketful of plastic edibles to make a compelling demonstration of just how little a relief family was getting. While he was addressing his colleagues, they stole the exhibit, sawed the pork chops in half, used the basket as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Making of a Maverick | 1/16/1950 | See Source »

From the time she was 16, and got her first real tennis instruction (from Bruce Ainley, pro at swank Town House), Pauline set the alarm clock for 5 a.m., took a basketful of balls to the practice court and worked on her strokes until it was time for school. At...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Way of a Champ | 9/2/1946 | See Source »

The "wildcat" Communist-run strike at the North American Aviation plant in Inglewood, Calif, was scarcely broken when a C.I.O. union (of die casters) walked out of the Cleveland plant of Aluminum Co. of America. The move, following the pattern at Inglewood, was in defiance of a Mediation Board request...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Terrible Week | 6/23/1941 | See Source »

Into the Press last week President Roosevelt dumped a basketful of figures in the form of an off-schedule revision of the Federal budget for fiscal 1937 (June 30, 1936-June 30, 1937). Republicans and Democrats promptly began tossing billions at each other's heads in a fierce dispute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: Downs & Ups | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

Sirs: Esteemed William Esty Mydans, Ph.D., in TIME, June 1, cynically asks your authority for the statement that "pigs eat coal with relish, digest it with ease." I am able to supply the information on the highest authority, namely, Fred Fletcher, tenant on my farm here. On the return of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 15, 1936 | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

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