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...years in Memphis have yielded him not only power, but wealth-cotton land in Mississippi, a fine brick house, part ownership in an exclusive hunting club, major holdings in the Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of N.Y. But no man has ever disputed the old man's proudest brag: that he has never made a nickel through common political graft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TENNESSEE: Ring-Tailed Tooter | 5/27/1946 | See Source »

...that I might brag before people that the cabbage I grew is the best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Remembrance of Mings Past | 5/20/1946 | See Source »

...bespectacled intellectual who spent the war years teaching economics in Russia. He drafted the drastic Nationalization Bill. His avowed objective is "the liquidation of feudalism and also capitalism in Poland." The son of a wealthy Warsaw businessman, Mine was brought up in comparative luxury. Old Madame Mine used to brag about her eccentric boy. "My Hilary," she would tell her friends, "started showing Communist leanings at a very early date. When he was 17, he would never light a cigaret before offering one to our maidservant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: The Peasant & the Tommy Gun | 2/11/1946 | See Source »

Next week Slick Airways will fly its first commercial cargo (vegetables and seafood) to the "Texas Brag" dinner* in Washington. Taking in all the hustle & bustle at Alamo Field, old Charlie Urschel Sr., a director of the fledgling company, cracked: "You'd think there was a hot lease play around here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Slick Brothers | 1/28/1946 | See Source »

...remembering the precise time a transport plane passed over the farm daily, he was able to locate the farm, help the FBI trap the kidnappers. *A term used by Texans, notorious braggarts about Texas, to describe their opinion of their state. Those who have "demonstrated ability" in such bragging will be feted by Texas Citrus & Vegetable Growers Association in Washington at the first Texas Brag dinner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Slick Brothers | 1/28/1946 | See Source »

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