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Last week small, spry, white-haired William Wattis was in San Francisco's St. Francis Hospital taking the Coffey-Humber cancer treatment when word reached him that his company had won the contract to build Hoover Dam. His jolly blue eyes snapped with delight. Wrapped in his bathrobe, and puffing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONSERVATION: Damn Big Dam | 3/23/1931 | See Source »

OH PROMISE ME-Lee Tracy as a venal and jolly young shyster.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMING,GOING: COMING | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

Then came the word: The World had been sold to Scripps-Howard. The hubbub grew again. Some of the men drifted away, headbent, stunned, dully meditative. Others, a little raucously, encircled City Editor Barrett with "For He's a Jolly

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: World's End | 3/9/1931 | See Source »

"Mr. Priestley's broadside, illogical and uninformed as it is, serves American snobbery jolly well right. Year after year we submit to the patronage of a procession of such visitors, turn the other cheek, and apparently yearn for a third, that we might also turn it. "If it takes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: 'Lethargic Worm | 3/2/1931 | See Source »

Master of the strongbox is Albert William Benham. For 20 years Citizen Benham worked for National Sewing Machine Co., lived in a modest home. He is a fat, jolly, robust man now going on 46. Recently he mortgaged his home and that of a friend for $4,000. Nobody paid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Black Hawk Trader | 2/2/1931 | See Source »

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