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...President picked Louisville's lanky, jug-eared ex-Mayor Wilson Wyatt as federal housing boss. It was immediately apparent that Wilson Wyatt was going to have trouble. Real-estate boards and construction men all over the country forthwith set up an outraged howl over the President's request for ceilings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOUSING: 180° Turn | 12/24/1945 | See Source »

...Cree Indian named Jake whom he considers his good-luck charm.) This time Prospector Campbell invested in more durable things than wheat futures. Among his new acquisitions: two planes (with a private pilot), a fully equipped yacht, a saxophone (which his wife abhorred "because it makes the wolves howl"), and the first player piano to be brought into the Red Lake district, complete with 500 rolls of music. Then Mrs. Campbell hid the mail-order catalogue because "it held too many attractions for George...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: The Campbells Are Coming | 12/17/1945 | See Source »

This is a howl from an indignant citizen. W. F. ALLISON Lieutenant, U.S.N.R. Washington

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Pearl Harbor Report | 9/24/1945 | See Source »

Consul Eaton, soon disgusted by the greed and eternal haggling of the Tripolitan Pasha, decided that appeasment did not pay. Instead he set up a howl for naval action. If he had his way, he stormed, the U.S. would fit out a fleet, sink every corsair on sight and "let the Pashas wreak their vengeance on the consuls- if they pleased, eat them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Barbary Gang Buster | 8/27/1945 | See Source »

...first howl was for elections. Three days after an obscure political newcomer -Dr. J. Hortensio Quijano, Minister of the Interior-announced the freedom decree, Argentines headed for the monument to Roque Saenz Pena, author of Argentina's now-rusty election laws. They piled flowers high around Roque, booed the Government, demanded a free election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: End of a Siege | 8/20/1945 | See Source »

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