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...nothing." Wall Streeters, however, believe that he inherited more than enough righteousness. Last week, for example, just when the stock exchanges thought they had him all lined up to relax the rules about trading by "insiders," as SEC's contribution to "appeasement," he sharply called their report "a phoney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE JUDICIARY: No Monkey Business | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

...celebrate their new opposition, Presidents Thomas & Martin last week debated whether Harry Bennett, personnel director of Ford Motor Co., contributed to U. A. W.'s split by dangling a phoney agreement in front of Homer Martin. Said Mr. Bennett, at last speaking for himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Two Presidents | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

...Janeiro, a woman was arrested for trying to pass a counterfeit U. S. $5 bill. On the bill was written: "A phoney certificate-payable to any real sucker. If you redeem this certificate you are a magician...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Salesman | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

Five years ago, say the Czechs, nobody was aware of the sad plight of the Sudetens. The Czech contention is that Adolf Hitler has dramatized whatever case the Sudetens have into a vast and phoney political extravaganza. But the Sudeten Germans have caught the harsh and compelling sound of the Nazi bands just over the mountains, have listened to Nazi oratory and fallen under the spell of Adolf Hitler's pan-Germanism. Ninety percent of them voted as a unit for Konrad Hen-lein's Sudetendeutsch Partei in the local elections. Nothing unites a group like a grievance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Optimist | 6/27/1938 | See Source »

According to official tabulation, from 17 eligible voters 18 ballots were cast. Fifteen were for the inside union, two against, and the other was just kind of phoney...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON TRUSTIES SLIP IN AN EXTRA VOTE AT POLLING | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

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