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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Money as a Tool. The career started 14 years ago. Eccles, a staunch Mormon, was also a staunch advocate of the theory that money is a tool to be used, not hoarded. As a young man in Mormon frock coat and silk hat, he had proselytized for the Latter-Day Saints along Glasgow's Clydeside. As a Utah enterpriser, he had used the sizable fortune inherited from his pioneer father to build a small empire of sugar, lumber and construction companies, and 28 banks throughout Utah and Idaho...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Reserve Shift | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

...Angelo LaSalle of Des Moines, Iowa, was thrown clear, stumbled away from the burning fragments, fell unconscious in the snow. There he was found by Horst Kupski, a onetime Luftwaffe pilot working for an upland French farmer. Kupski wrapped LaSalle in a blanket, removed his own shoes, coat and hat to clothe the American, got him down the mountainside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR AGE: Then Silence | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

...constituency at Dundee: "We want food; we don't want empty promises." Outside, after the speech, a crowd of women gave him a raucous parting boo. There was clearly nothing a gentleman could say, but what a gentleman could do John Strachey did: very courteously, he tipped his hat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Retort Courteous | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

Wrong Number. In Kansas City, Store Clerk Walter Browning listened patiently to a customer's description of a hat that had attracted her in the window, gently broke the news to her: it was a handbag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 2, 1948 | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

...could discover the identify of the six "Med. Fac." members until Harvard Class Day, when they appeared faunting on a lapel a sort of black pen-wiper with white skull-and-crossbones. Some of the antics of the "Med, Facs." become notorious, such as placing a fireman's hat on the head of the solider stop the granite monument on Cambridge Common, which the powers-that-be could not dislodge until the fire department was restore to; by squirted if off! The perpetrator became more famous for this act than for performing (her I am interupted by Dr. Franz...

Author: By Francis C. Woodman, | Title: Woodman Recalls Customs, Sports, Crimson of 'Eighties | 1/30/1948 | See Source »

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