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From a "little ole red schoolhouse" through Baylor University at Waco to the University of Texas for a law course, Tom did well at his books. Otherwise he failed to distinguish himself much. He acquired a couple of nicknames: "Double-Barrel Shotgun" Connally, a tribute to his skinniness, and "Talking Tom," a tribute to his wagging tongue. His college days were briefly interrupted when he volunteered for the Spanish-American War; but his regiment saw no action. Settling down to law practice in Marlin (pop. then: 3,092) after the war, he found business none too brisk. Soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Senate & the Peace | 3/13/1944 | See Source »

...Army does not distinguish between legitimacy and illegitimacy. Result: the three babies will share $70 in monthly family allowances. The British Army allows three children, legitimate or illegitimate, about $18 a month. Michael, Maureen and Madeline lose the King's bounty ?1 per head ($4.04) for multiple births of three or more. This bounty is not for by-blows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Quads & the Man | 3/13/1944 | See Source »

When the first Spits and Thunderbolts started their escort work last spring, trigger-itchy gunners of Forts and Liberators warned them that it was hard to distinguish between friend & foe in an air battle. Some friendly fighters were shot down before fighters learned never to point their noses at bombers, as attacking Nazis do. Some bomber men had to be taught better recognition and understanding of fighter tactics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: Fighters Up | 12/27/1943 | See Source »

...Japs Back Here Ever." The mother lodge (15,000 members) of the Fraternal Order of Eagles voted unanimously in Seattle to deport all U.S. Japanese after the war. So did the Portland Progressive Business Men's Club, and the Oregon State Legion. Hardly anyone ever bothered to distinguish between the alien Japanese, who are deportable, and U.S. citizens of Japanese ancestry. A battalion of U.S.-born Japs is fighting well in the front line in Italy; another 2,500 Japanese-Americans are elsewhere in the U.S. Army; hundreds serve in Military Intelligence in the South Pacific; 20,000, cleared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inquisition in Los Angeles | 12/20/1943 | See Source »

...Life & High Living. The main story of Taps for Private Tussie is about the surviving Tussies (known as the Relief Tussies to distinguish them from the Tussies who remained Republican) in their swift squandering of Uncle Kim's $10,000 insurance. It is thus a Tobacco Road of the hill people, more shocking because it deals with the death of a soldier, painful and raucous in many of its details of low life among the people for whom he died, but enlivened all the way through by Jesse Stuart's magnificent use of his native idiom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lonesome Mountain | 12/13/1943 | See Source »

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