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...Governors moved their session behind closed doors, to mull over their gripes, distrusts, hopes, ambitions. Before they went to dinner that night, they had made a solemn agreement: they would join forces, keep their ammunition dry, would make no commitments on a 1944 Presidential candidate until they had conferred again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Solid a South? | 4/5/1943 | See Source »

...convert both with the same argument. Aim your argument at the classicist and the popular-addict will accuse you of being high-brow. Aim your argument at the popular-addict and the classicist says, "You still haven't convinced me." Soooo, you go over into a corner and mull and mull. Then someone asks you what you're doing, and you tell him you want to find out a way to convert people to liking jazz. Invariably...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SWING | 10/26/1942 | See Source »

...year-old only son of the late Secretary of the Treasury Andrew William Mellon, entered famed St. John's College at Annapolis, Md., a freshman. Weekending with wife and daughter on his nearby 400-acre farm in foxy Fauquier County, Va., Freshman Mellon on weekdays will begin to mull the 100 classics which St. John's considers all that is necessary for a college education...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 7, 1940 | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

Last week the National Association of Manufacturers met for its 43rd annual congress with the biggest attendance ever, come to Manhattan to ogle Guest Speaker Anthony Eden (see p. 9) and mull the keynote of "Making America Click...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Making America Click | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

...Continued to mull over the railroad problem. Virtually everyone in the U. S. from linemen on the B. & O. to the editorial staff of the Wall Street Journal had his eye on Senator Burton K. Wheeler, whose Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce has the job of drafting railroad legislation. Senator Wheeler's first move was a conference with representatives of railroad operators and workers. Ignoring the suggestion of wage cuts, the conference took up the following proposals: further RFC loans to the roads, revision of rate-making procedure, regulation of water transport, elimination of Federal barge lines, passage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Government's Week: May 2, 1938 | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

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