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There are hardly any New Dealers left in the Department of Agriculture, which was once brimful of them. Charles Franklin Brannan, 44, former Denver attorney, who entered the Department under Henry Wallace, is one of the few. He is Assistant Secretary, in charge of soil conservation, grazing and irrigation programs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Patience Rewarded | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

Paul Lukas, Hungarian-born stage & screen specialist at portraying conspiratorial smoothies, got back from a trip to Europe, confirmed reports that he had seen through the disguise of a Nazi actor hiding out in Hof-Gastein, Austria, and turned him in to Army Intelligence. Watch on the Rhine's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Nov. 12, 1945 | 11/12/1945 | See Source »

Last week some of the mystery was cleared up. Available for the fall opening of schools was the first comprehensive text on the "applied science" of guidance (Techniques of Guidance; Harper, $3.50). Its author, Arthur E. Traxler, is a conscientious Ph.D. who for the past nine years has been associated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Science of Guidance | 9/17/1945 | See Source »

In Trinidad, Colo, a motorist chirped "Fill 'er up," started to roll away with a brimful tank of unrationed gasoline. Then the tank fell off.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RECONVERSION: Fill 'er Up | 8/27/1945 | See Source »

The Man. In the light of these first words and actions, thoughtful citizens could weigh their President only tentatively, but they had a fuller chance to size him up as a personality. He seemed to fit the advance notices as a classic product of rural Missouri-full of the unpretentiousness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The First Ten Days | 4/30/1945 | See Source »

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