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There were only 27 states in the U.S. when Oliver Wendell Holmes was born (1841). William Henry (Tippecanoe) Harrison was President. Daniel Webster was Secretary of State. The best people believed in a twelve-hour day for work men ("The morals of the operatives," said one observer, "will necessarily suffer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Great Dissenter | 5/8/1944 | See Source »

Under Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius Jr. was seeing everybody. To Prime Minister Winston Churchill he took a fine acorn-fed Virginia ham with the fat all on it, sat and talked late in the P.M.'s bedroom. Next day he settled to long, earnest talks with Foreign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN N EWS,INTERNATIONAL: Man of Good Will | 4/24/1944 | See Source »

In the key election in Oklahoma's second District, Democrat William G. Stigler (a half-Choctaw) beat Republican Edwin Oliver Clark (a quarter-Choctaw) for Congress by 3,700 votes. The election was advertised as a crucial test of whether the long Republican trend could be stopped (TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ELECTIONS: Lesson in Oklahoma | 4/10/1944 | See Source »

The lobby braves were led by William Garrard, of Greenwood, Miss., general manager of the Staple Cotton Cooperative Association. He protested that because December cotton futures were quoted at $9 a bale under March prices, the Exchange was "offering price destruction instead of price insurance." The Senate braves were led...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COTTON: Political Cartel | 3/27/1944 | See Source »

A favorite Saturday afternoon for the King & Queen is tea at the country house of Oliver Stanley, Minister of Colonies, whose wife, now dead, was the beautiful, dashing Lady Maureen Stanley. The "tea" is usually a drink or two, and the company an informal collection of R.A.F. air vice marshals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Man of England | 3/6/1944 | See Source »

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