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Ever since the President named Will Clayton as the Surplus War Property administrator last February, the grey, hard-fisted Texan has been a prime target for left-wing New Dealers. The hatchetmen have accused Will Clayton, the world's biggest cotton broker, of: 1) planning to handle surplus property...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: The Surplus Surplus Bill | 10/2/1944 | See Source »

Singing Frog. Into his shoes, but as Premier only, stepped another two-fisted

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: The Shadow Before | 7/31/1944 | See Source »

No Place Like Home. The Bulletin is aimed at Philadelphia's miles upon miles of rows upon rows of homes. It sticks to good coverage of local news, thoroughness, objectivity in all things. Slow on the uptake when it comes to two-fisted journalism, it is fast on its...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Quiet Queen | 4/10/1944 | See Source »

These were hard blows to Boss Petrillo, who gets $46,000 a year for the most tight-fisted union control in all organized labor. The panel even called Petrillo's ban a strike-a word Czar Jimmy abhors. Petrillo, offbeat, trumpeted that he would appeal, even to the Supreme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Offbeat | 3/20/1944 | See Source »

Smoke and Gloom. A stubby, stocky man of 54, with a bullet head and a grinding klaxon voice, John George Taylor Spink works seven days, six nights a week (Sunday nights off) fiercely turning out the weekly paper that is baseball's bible. In gloomy, smoke-stained offices on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Mr. Baseball | 11/8/1943 | See Source »

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