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...local elections according to religious majorities). Once a stanch supporter of the Indian National Congress party (for independence), he later became soul & body of the All-India Moslem League (for Moslems), of which he is permanent president. Tall, slim, aquiline of feature and grey of hair, an immaculate dresser, an adroit lawyer, reserved yet with plenty of charm behind the tap when he chooses to turn it on, he has the enthusiasm of a youngster at 63, and the air of a queen's courtier in law courts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Jinnah Split | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...candidate's person Mr. McHale was well enough satisfied, and Paul McNutt continued to go about with baggy, overlong pants draping his slightly bowed legs, unshined shoes on his slightly pigeon-toed feet-an appearance politically pleasing to an electorate which traditionally distrusts the too-snappy dresser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Handsome Hoosier | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...swellest dresser, with them nifty shirts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Food for Light Thought | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...House of Representatives last week, New York's James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. (Rep.), a natty dresser, defined the difference between an under and an assistant secretary of the Cabinet. Said he: the former may wear spats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 12, 1939 | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

...method as nearly resembling straight-line production as fee aircraft industry has yet approximated. But Glenn Martin does not tinker with airplanes any more. He tells other people what he wants. When he returns to his office he is as unruffled and immaculate as before. A fussy dresser, he goes in for double-breasted suits in sturdy fabrics, insists that his tailors (Bell & Co., Manhattan) put cuffs on his coat sleeves, adorn his lapels and cuffs with little raised ridges that give the suits a ribbed appearance vaguely like the belly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Kites to Bombers | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

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