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...epic career through its Presidential conclusion but ends it with his retirement in 1821 when, full of honorable scars, Old Hickory was willing to call his day a day. More ambitious attempt than Author James's prizewinning life of Sam Houston (The Raven), Andrew Jackson is no .ess stirring a biographical achievement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old Hickory | 4/3/1933 | See Source »

Regular counsel for the Star is Watson, Gage, Ess, Groner & Barnett. Senior Partner I. N. Watson is the firm's authority on libel. He defended Henry Ford against Aaron Sapiro, Associated with him in that case was Senator Reed, and last week hard-hitting Lawyer Reed was again called in. White-crested, choleric of complexion, a cigar clamped in the corner of his axe-mark mouth, he will glory in fighting once more "for the People." For whatever the merits of the two sides may be, with Lawyer Reed's party's reputation at slake locally (Governor Woodring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Storm over Kansas | 7/20/1931 | See Source »

...with old John D. it was different; he was out to develop an infant industry; caveat emptor was the bust ess standard of that time. He heard there was gold in oil when he was 22, and a year later he was in the oil business with an Englishman named M. B. Clark and a mechanical wizard named Samuel Andrews. Bargaining and borrowing was Mr. Rockefeller's prime task. Once he told a Clevelander that he wanted to invest $10,000 before he hit that same Clevelander for a loan of $5,000. So it is easy to understand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Ledger Man | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

...ess of an incautious genius, originally traced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Cream | 10/25/1926 | See Source »

...Today the United States does not stand on these Americas as the leader of young nations who look to her for protection against Europe. It is doubtful if the Latin Republics of the Southern Hemisphere would willingly accept her as a protector-ess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: On Canada | 5/25/1925 | See Source »

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