Word: buttons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dictaphone Button...
Busy Beaverbrook is wasting a great deal of time if he dictates without depressing the Dictaphone button as he fails to do in TIME'S Bourke-White cover photo...
...traveled across the United States 41 times and is now on his fifth encirclement of the world. Burdened with two large bars containing souvenirs of his travels, 42,000 autographs of all the great personalities of the world, and sporting a ten gallon bat adorned with a Willkie button, he arrived here with his wife, "Queen" Cole...
Wearing a Willkie button in his lapel, Christian A. Herter '15, Republican Speaker of the House in the Massachusetts General Court, used his own career as an illustration of the "life and times of a Harvard man." Chemist, diplomat, teacher, miner, and politician, Herter advised less dogmatism and more open-minded readiness to benefit by opportunities...
Hollywood was going irresponsible professionally-and for good box-office reasons-but privately life was getting relatively earnest. Sidney Skolsky spotted Jimmy Roosevelt spreading charm around a Hollywood party unconscious of a Willkie button slyly pinned to the back of his coat. Walter O'Keefe, a New York comedian, arrived in town to organize a Republican committee with bright-eyed Robert Montgomery as chairman. Democratic National Committeewoman Helen Gahagan (songstress wife of Melvyn Douglas) was rounding up Roosevelt votes with the help of sinister Edward G. Robinson, serene Douglas Fairbanks Jr. National defense got its call with the arrival...