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Word: managerized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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For Seymour Weiss, the bald, polite $15-a-week shoe salesman of 1924, the $25-a-week Roosevelt Hotel barbershop manager of 1925, has been immensely' wealthy and powerful since he polished up Huey Long's manners in 1927, taught him to play golf and enjoy himself in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: Rats In the Pantry | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

By week's end, Dr. J. M. ("Jingle Money") Smith had been indicted 36 times and was under $204,500 bail in the New Orleans jail. Louisiana was not content just to "throw the book" at dour Doctor Smith. Out went State officials, day after day, high and low...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: Rats In the Pantry | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

A holdout against Hollywood blandishments for two years has been pudding-faced, precocious Orson Welles, 24-year-old actor-manager of Manhattan's Mercury Theatre. Last week, when young Mr. Welles put his name to a one-picture-a-year contract with RKO, the terms for which he had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Welles's Terms | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

Patron saint of those condemned to death is St. Dismas, the "Good Thief," who was crucified alongside Jesus and asked the Lord to remember him in Heaven. In the U. S., Dismas was a much-neglected saint until the late Dempster MacMurphy, business manager of the Chicago Daily News, took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Thief's Church | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

That admission became the headache of tall Emil Schram, 45, who became Jesse Jones's successor as RFC Chairman. A successful Hoosier whose business was farming, timber, coal, he was made a member of RFC's board in 1936. From handling RFC loans to needy drainage and irrigation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: New Lender | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

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