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Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill is an individualist of such reckless stamp that only chance kept him from the gallows until he attained the armor of prestige and power. A minor exploit of his youth was to "shinny" up the central pillar in a London music hall, wearing the uniform of his Queen (Victoria) and demand three cheers for every daughter of joy in the house. Theirs were, he shouted, the only bosoms on which the tired head of a British soldier could always find repose. By a miracle he was not cashiered?rose to hold the purse strings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Madcap Chancellor | 1/31/1927 | See Source »

While others asked the opinions of public officials on the Baumes laws, a feminine newsgatherer last week sought out her literary idol, Theodore Dreiser, the plodding individualist, whose trips to Sing Sing to watch convicts suffer were so necessary apart of his An American Tragedy (TIME, Jan. 25, 1926). He told her this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Hungry, Cold, Scorched | 1/24/1927 | See Source »

...Cardinal O'Connell, 67, Boston; Dennis J. Cardinal Dougherty, 61, Philadelphia; Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes, 59, New York; George William Cardinal Mundelein, 54, Chicago. Of these Cardinal Mundelein is perhaps most prominent, since his organization of the recent Eucharistic Congress (TIME, May 31), but is said to be an individualist without desire for further honor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: More Cardinals | 12/20/1926 | See Source »

...coast. Just as Louisiana is of all States perhaps the most detached and self-concerned, and just as New Orleans concentrates the independent-mindedness that makes this so, just so does Editor Marshall Ballard, with his loose, comfortable clothes, vigorous address and un concerned habits epitomize the talented Southern individualist in an age of "mass circulations" and commercial editorial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Press | 8/30/1926 | See Source »

...contact-the way they live is. their affair. My job is to look after myself so I can stick on the job and give them plenty of work to keep them busy." He keeps fit by keeping a physician hired permanently to guard his health. Although a strong individualist, he agreed that all executives should keep themselves physically fit to conduct properly the affairs of their business. But the keeping fit by golf playing, he sneered at. Doubtless he realized that many a golf game is but the excuse for a "klabberfest," a male gossiping party, or for the shirking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Anti-Golf | 3/29/1926 | See Source »

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