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Good-natured, ineffectual Harry Woodring, an Oxford Grouper and an isolationist, seemed unable to grasp the imminence of war, proved to be an ineffective Secretary. Harry Woodring's inaction and Louis Johnson's burning desire for the job precipitated a three-year running feud between the two top...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Paid in Full | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

The boxer, a good-natured brute of a dog, was bred in central Europe in the 15th Century to whip its weight in wild boars. In the U.S., until recently, boxers were as rare as giraffes. Even 16 years ago, says one breeder, "you could lead all the boxers in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Prize Brute | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

Vandenberg spoke with wit and without rancor. He paid good-natured tribute to Harry Truman as "the most famous one-man tornado in the history of political hurricanes," twitted him for spending "six soap-box months telling the American people how the Republicans had ruined them," then opening his message...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: High Roads & Dead Pigeons | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

Looking back at past U.S. depressions, from Martin Van Buren to Herbert Hoover, Harry Truman got a good-natured laugh when he mentioned his own 1921 bankruptcy-"when the businessman got into politics," meaning himself. But he turned dead serious when he talked of the need for preventing any such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Distinction Is Different | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

"We can't let the daily press laugh the incident off," Winn writes, "with nervous jokes about eating crow, and jittery gestures in the direction of a pseudo good-natured sportsmanship." But the press is Big Business. How can the public interest find protection? It could be hoped that some...

Author: By Selig S. Harrison, | Title: Brass Tacks | 2/3/1949 | See Source »

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