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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senate Banking and Currency Committee's hearings on rent control were brightened by Mrs. Frank Morris, a well-dressed, belligerent landlady of Dallas who wanted all controls taken off. Said she: "I am fighting for freedom for enterprise. I am fighting for my children [one daughter, three grandchildren] and for their future." Asked Chairman Charles Tobey dryly: "Oh, tell me, pretty maiden, are there any more at home like you?" Mrs. Morris: "I am an only child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Congress' Week, Feb. 17, 1947 | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

...house. He eats little, drinks no alcohol, quit smoking when he first went to jail. In recent years he has had serious stomach trouble. His only exercise is a walk when he rises, at 4:30 a.m. His only recreation is bouncing a ball across the room to his grandchildren. He has never seen a movie. He cares little about the world outside his country. Of 300 books in his Bombay library, every one is by an Indian, mostly about India...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Boss | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

...Wrote Steinbeck: "When my grandchildren speak of their sugarplum eroticisms I can say, 'You see? This is how it was in my day. This Dragon Lady, with the figure of a debutante (if debutantes have figures) was one of your old man's girl friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Escape Artist | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

...great-grandmother). Weight: 6 Ibs. To James Roosevelt, 39, oldest son of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and second wife Romelle Schneider Roosevelt, 30: their second son (his fourth child); in Los Angeles. Name: Michael Anthony. Weight: 9 Ibs. 8 oz. Grand total of the late President's grandchildren...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 16, 1946 | 12/16/1946 | See Source »

...Adams married Frances Levering, daughter of Massachusetts' Congressman William C. Lovering, in 1899. He has two children, Charles Francis Adams Jr. and Mrs. Catherine Adams Morgan, daughter-in-law of famed Financier J. P. Morgan; nine grandchildren...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ORGANIZATIONS: Something Old, Something New | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

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