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"Monopoly" was the sure-fire political expletive which "Tommy-the-Cork" Corcoran put upon the loud tongues of Janizaries Bob Jackson and Harold Ickes when he pushed them out to make speeches just a year ago, in defense of the Administration after the arrival of Depression II. The word was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Dull but Important | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

Mad as a wet hen was George V in 1935 when he offered Australia his third son, the roly-poly Duke of Gloucester, as Governor General, and Australia declined with thanks. A lot of trouble has turned up in the world since then, however, what with the Italians showing their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Kents to Quints | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

Coach Carr's Varsity has defeated Tufts 5-0, Amherst, 2-1, Dartmouth 3-0, Springfield 1-0, M. I. T. 4-3, and tied Princeton 3-3. Brown has defeated M. I. T. 3-0, but has lost games to Worcester Poly Tech, Wesleyan, Dartmouth, and Williams.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Soccer Team Holds Big Odds Over Brown Today | 11/5/1938 | See Source »

When the Soviet Union's Foreign Commissar, roly-poly Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff was reminded by correspondents last spring that Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union have no common frontier and was asked how his country could possibly go to Czechoslovakia's aid in case of war, the Commissar exclaimed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Will & Way | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

Shigemitsu & Litvinoff. In Moscow, truce grew last week directly out of negotiations carried on for the past three weeks by roly-poly Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff and pegleg Japanese Ambassador Mamoru Shigemitsu (who is a great pal of pegleg Correspondent Walter Duranty). The facts about disputed Changkufeng Hill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Truce | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

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