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...Hertzog's more amenable fillin, Acting President Mamerto Urriolagoitia, Patiño suggested that the whole problem could be solved by getting rid of the union leaders. Their banishment followed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: 20th Century Riot | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

...much funny business does go on? Often, the jockey and the horse he is to ride have never met before. The trainer, who has a disillusioned parent's knowledge of the horse's habits and possibilities, gives the jockey a quick fillin, and tells him how to ride the race. Once on the track, the jockey has, like the soldier, the privilege of disregarding instructions and taking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover: Man on a Horse | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

Canny, crack-voiced Ezra Stone, 24, the script's top drawing card, started as Henry Aldrich in the stage play, What a Life, from which the radio serial was concocted. The script was a summer fillin, but Ezra's adolescent croaks and bleats so delighted radio listeners that The Aldrich Family emerged in the fall of 1939 as a full-fledged weekly show, soon had an audience of millions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: New Henry Aldrich | 9/14/1942 | See Source »

...night of Feb. 15, 1933, at the Miami Bay Front Park when Giuseppe Zangara shot at Franklin Roosevelt, fatally wounded Chicago's Mayor Anton Joseph Cermak instead. All White House reporters were on the train a quarter-mile away. Henry ran the quarter-mile, gave them a thorough fillin, saved their jobs to a man. Kannee last week resigned his $6,000-a-year position to get "considerably more" as assistant to Chairman-President James H. Rand Jr. of Remington Rand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Week I, Term III | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

...copper kittle an she's 30 gallons if she's a spoon-full. Gittin bout time to bring her out now and bout the time this gets to you we'll be stirrin ourselves to stir up our supply of the best so of fillin that God ever invented with fresh bread. Hopin youre the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 4, 1937 | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

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