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Fabulous was the Old Farmer's success in predicting diurnal or hebdomadal weather a year in advance. Legend has it that the publisher, pressed by a typesetter for a July 13 forecast, replied hastily: "Anything, anything." The impish employe set up "Rain, Hail and Snow." On July 13, sure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Hardy Perennial | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

I did not say that "Every man I have ever hired tried to double-cross me." What I did say was that in my 40 years of business experience I have never found a female employe who was not one hundred per cent faithful to her employer, while I, for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 11, 1940 | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

In the crowded auditorium, Mrs. Mildred C. Bell gasped: 158 was her 21-year-old son Harry's number. A friend sitting beside her squawked with excitement, bringing newsmen, radio announcers and temporary fame upon the Bells and Harry's fiancee. There was another 158 in Mr. Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE DRAFT: Only the Strong | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

Careerists, Tiffany men seldom quit. But there are three sure ways to get fired. One is to sell (or give away) a Tiffany box to a non-purchaser. Another is to fight with an old customer. The third is to steal. About once in ten years an employe is caught...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIAGE TRADE: Tiffany Moves | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

Ordeal By Egg. In Detroit, plump divorcee Doris La Roue, 31, RFC employe, pleaded guilty to tossing a metal wastebasket, a telephone book, an ash tray and other furniture oddments from an 18th story window during a downtown Willkie parade. Said Miss La Roue, denounced by the President, and straightway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: Every Man in His Humor | 10/14/1940 | See Source »

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