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...Suave, powerful Emilio Fortes Gil, Provisional President of Mexico after the assassination of Obregon. As No. 1 brawn-truster to Avila Camacho, Gil probably knows as much about Mexican politics as any other living man, will thus be indispensable to the syndicate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Strange Bedfellows | 12/23/1940 | See Source »

Compromise. Behind this happy front tangled the horns of forces that some day might grow bigger than Avila Camacho. Avila Camacho has surrounded himself with a coterie of military and political strong men. Most important among his brawn trusters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: New President, Old Job | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

Feeling his oats last week, Minister Marquet also had advice for America. "Tell America her time is coming unless she wakes up," he advised foreign pressmen. "In 1932 when I was there, a young man with average intelligence, average brawn and average will to work could have hoped and did hope to amass enough to live comfortably. When I returned in 1939 I was astonished to find American youth no longer wished to work . . . women filling the jobs of men in industry and commerce, wearing too much make-up and refusing to bear children. I warn you . . . it is time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Hour of Truth | 8/5/1940 | See Source »

BARTLEY, W. Va.--Three score huskey rescue workers, chosen for brawn and daring, worked perilously late today in the gas-filled depths of a coal mine where an explosion had trapped 86 miners, most of whom were feared dead...

Author: By United Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 1/12/1940 | See Source »

...accredited and much more ambitious Reds in the Communist Party, U. S. A., this credo was no great distinction. What distinguished Witness Bridges was that he put his union ahead of their Party. He confessed that he had used and would continue to use Communist money, brains and brawn when they could help win something for the discontented stevedores, lumberjacks, fruit pickers, etc., in his longshoremen's and related C. I. O. unions on the West Coast. He conceded that Communists try to use him and his unions, denied that they succeeded, invited them to keep on trying. That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IMMIGRATION: Down Under Man | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

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