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This plain, effective platform had not been drawn up overnight. It dated from last July when mastiff-faced Representative J. William Ditter of Ambler, Pa., chairman of the Republican National Congressional Committee decided that the G.O.P. Congressmen needed a solid platform to campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: G.O.P. Decalogue | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

Compact, greying, pitcher-eared, with jowls that would do justice to a mastiff, Bill Henry is no stranger to radio. Five times a week he does a West Coast commentary, is sometimes heard on such CBS news roundup shows as The World Today. He claims he was the first radio front-line correspondent of World War II. He came by the distinction rather fortuitously. When he went to Europe in 1939, it was to advise the Finns how to get set for the 1940 Olympics. As technical director of the Los Angeles Games of 1932, the Berlin Games...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Henry for Hedda | 8/18/1941 | See Source »

Last week U. S. cartoonists had an exciting new problem-Wendell Willkie. Their first task was to collect their wits. Then they squinted hard at Willkie's big, slightly stooped frame, his mastiff face (it would "batter" well, they observed), a mouth whose long, stubborn upper lip twinkled at the corners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Problem in Caricature | 7/8/1940 | See Source »

South Carolina's grumpy, mastiff-faced old Ellison DuRant Smith may be the Senate's No. 1 mossback, but South Carolina loves him still, treasures him as a precious relic. South Carolinians affectionately acknowledge that "Cotton Ed"*opposes progress in almost every conceivable form. But by last week many veteran Smithies had become anxious over the opposition of Sixth-Term Senator Smith to a Third Term for President Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH CAROLINA: Cotton Ed Serves Notice | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

Looking like a disconsolate mastiff, Mr. Wagner used the slide rule of economic statistics. His points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Wagner on the Wagner Act | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

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