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Died. Will Thorne, 88, Falstaffian British Laborite M.P. for 39 years, who spiced debates in Commons with protesting blasts on a football referee's whistle and stentorian encouragement (e.g., to Lady Astor during a hot discussion: "Stick it, lass, stick it!"); in London. A barber's assistant at six, he never had a day's formal education, believed firmly in marriage (when remarrying at 72 he explained: "I've had three wives and they were all jolly good ones"), once averred that a sensible Frau could keep even Hitler out of mischief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 14, 1946 | 1/14/1946 | See Source »

...might have hit like a bolt from the blue. For the plan asserts that the Federal Government must rely mainly on individual-not corporate-income taxes for the minimum $16 to $18 billion of revenue needed in the first peacetime year. But Economist Beardsley Ruml had scooped C.E.D.-the Falstaffian treasurer of R. H. Macy & Co. had bluntly said it first in July (TIME, Aug. 7). Ruml had also stated that high corporate taxes were more harmful to employment than high individual levies. But C.E.D. did not care that a little bloom was off its peach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Make Jobs | 9/11/1944 | See Source »

...armchair agronomist, Ray Anderson's talents range far afield from reporting. His farm page is a bursting bin of unmetered verse, sound information on crops and controls, self-snapped pictures, Falstaffian musings on the "gorgeous gorging" of apple-mulberry pie at Center Junction. Before gasoline rationing slowed his pace he averaged 38,000 miles a year, perhaps half of them over unpaved pikes and stubbly fields...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Anderson's Acres | 2/28/1944 | See Source »

With these intriguing words, Falstaffian Dr. Guani pushed on to Washington, where he conferred with State Secretary Hull and other U.S. officials on problems of Uruguayan economy (principally the question of a $10,000,000 loan to finance Uruguayan public works). He left behind him in South America much speculation. The week before, Foreign Minister Gabriel Turbay of Colombia, likewise visiting Washington, had confirmed a report that his nation was negotiating with Russia for an exchange of diplomatic representatives. Venezuela and Ecuador were also considering the step. Russia, unrecognized in Latin America until last autumn (when Cuba and Mexico took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Parade to Moscow | 2/1/1943 | See Source »

This question, addressed to Price Boss Leon Henderson at a press conference last week, brought forth a belly laugh in the best-natured Henderson manner. (The Price Boss has a great talent for Falstaffian waggery: he looks good on a Victory bicycle, sounds wonderful on Information, Please.) It also brought a frank admission: ". . . my lack of politeness. They say you should never get so busy you can't be polite. But Shakespeare, I believe it was, divided people into four groups.* I belong to the group with a low boiling point.. . . I've had plenty of flame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Henderson's Boiling Point | 12/21/1942 | See Source »

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