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...might be expected, Henry Wallace was there. While the delegates chanted "Wallace for President,"* Henry denounced the domestic and foreign policy of the Truman Administration: "The political errand boys of Wall Street . . . have conspired to weaken labor. They have set us on the road to depression at home and they are putting us on the road to war abroad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Birds of a Feather | 10/6/1947 | See Source »

...world. . . . The war-with-Russia hysteria is a propaganda weapon of reactionary capitalism. . . . Let us face the fact that our crises are not brought on by the Communists. The people responsible for high prices, high rents and growing insecurity are the monopoly capitalists and their political errand-boys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: How to Prevent Suicide | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

...bille is one of those unusual men who can scratch his right ear with the middle ringer left hand held behind his back (see cut). In general, his life has been unusual. He has been an errand boy, a bellhop, an elevator operator, a metal worker, a mechanic, an artilleryman. In Venice and Brussels he was a gigolo. In Fezzan he trafficked in arms. During this time, Sébille escaped two attempts on his life and took part in three major riots. Hit by German shrapnel at Rethel in 1940, Sébille was taken prisoner. Later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Intimatism | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

...body with the broken shaft. In a little while he picked up an electric drill, plugged it into the socket and bored into the corpse: one hole in the neck, two in the abdomen. Stuart turned out the lights and went back upstairs. When his father returned from an errand, he went home with him for dinner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: I Shouldn't Go On | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

House Guest. In Philadelphia, a court awarded Lela Ruth Sauder $2,500 back pay as a reluctant housekeeper, errand girl, barber and chauffeur to George C. Swanfeld, 90, who came to her house for a two-week visit, stayed on for twelve years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 17, 1947 | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

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