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Died. Joseph Vincent Connolly, 50, onetime editorial kingpin of the Hearst empire, hardheaded, hard-working boss of Hearst's King Features and International News Service; of a heart attack; in New Rochelle. N.Y. "Smiling Joe" Connolly made Walter Winchell, Damon Runyon, Arthur "Bugs" Baer and Robert "Believe It or...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 30, 1945 | 4/30/1945 | See Source »

The potent, hardheaded Committee for Economic Development this week came to the rescue of the Bretton Woods proposals. C.E.D.'s research committee-including Boston Banker Ralph E. Flanders and Tax Expert Beardsley Ruml-analyzed criticisms of the Fund and found that, so far as they were valid, they could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: The U.S. Calls the Turn | 3/26/1945 | See Source »

Money Talks. Hardheaded, hard-fisted William L. Clayton made his first major pronouncement since he became Assistant Secretary of State in charge of U.S. economic policy. With a refreshing scorn for diplomatic doubletalk, he told the Latin Americans not to kid themselves about that policy in the postwar world.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Within the Family | 3/12/1945 | See Source »

The man who did much of the combing-out job is hardheaded, old (68) Major General Lorenzo Dow Gasser, veteran of the Spanish war. Gasser, serving in the Office of Civilian Defense in the early, jittery days of the war, met the civilian clamor for gas masks, fire-fighting apparatus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: The Comb-Out | 2/5/1945 | See Source »

As she had often done before since the Falkland Islands were taken from her in 1833, Argentina last week officially called upon Britain to return the bleak, strategic archipelago thinly stocked with hardy sheep and hardheaded Scots. Britain was not expected to reply.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Even Penguins Know It | 1/15/1945 | See Source »

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