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Alois Hitler, Adolf's halfbrother, was released from custody by the British, who had queried him for six weeks and now pronounced him harmless. "It is clear to us," ran a dry but lightly carbonated statement by the British military government, "that he has led a perfectly blameless existence, being absolutely scared stiff of being associated in any way with the Führer's activities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Aug. 13, 1945 | 8/13/1945 | See Source »

Aguirre Cámara comes of an old family in Córdoba Province. In both political and private life his record is so blameless that even the slugging nationalist press of Buenos Aires has not been able to smear him. His aged patrician mother still chooses his clothes. When he was Finance Minister of Córdoba, he gave her his paycheck every week, like a boy on his first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Catch Me! | 12/11/1944 | See Source »

...movie itself is an utterly blameless attempt to display the faces and figures of a number of models under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It is also a vehicle for Rita Hayworth and Gene Kelly and the average moviegoer has seen the same thing two or three times before. No particular effort was expended in the writing of the script, and the picture vibrates rapidly between the ancient and the inane...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 3/24/1944 | See Source »

Ohio's voters also paid a tribute-the kind a politician understands best-to the efficient, blameless administration of Governor Bricker. Unlike Minnesota's Harold Stassen, John Bricker has taken no decisive stand on world affairs. Sticking to home territory, he ran up an honest record that his opponent could not attack. By the end of his present (second) term, he will have piled up a $40,000,000 surplus. Only other Republican to serve three terms as Ohio governor was Rutherford B. Hayes, who ended up in the White House. John Bricker's friends have hopes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Revolution in Ohio | 11/16/1942 | See Source »

Blitz Tactics. One non-caller was James Aloysius Farley. Genial Jim had made a White House call early in June, had indicated that the President had approved Jim Farley's man for Governor: mild, blameless Attorney General John J. Bennett Jr. By last week 51 of the 62 county organizations, said Farley, were committed to Bennett...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: While the War Waits | 7/20/1942 | See Source »

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