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Donald Wakefield Smith, 38 and the Board "baby," is a roly-poly, volatile, sharp-tongued onetime Philadelphia lawyer who would rather not be reminded that he looks like Herbert Hoover when he smiles. Boardman Smith knows how workers feel because his father was once a steel-worker and he himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Cooling Off | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

Threading their way solemnly through a line of divinity students picketing for the reappointment of pinko Associate Professor Jerome Davis,* the members of the Corporation of Yale University one morning last week assembled in their quarters in old Woodbridge Hall. It was their regular February meeting, but all through New...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Yaleman for Yale | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

"Le Maitre" himself, that is, the president of the great steel corporation, is skillfully played by Henri Rollan, who wisely uses all the restraint required by the role of a dignified, devoted, long-suffering man. He is paired with Gaby Morlay, who is just as deftly quiet in her portrayal...

Author: By R. O. B., | Title: The Crimson Moviegoer | 2/5/1937 | See Source »

The 50 Hayden millions will be administered by his executors-President Arthur J. Ronaghan of Equitable Trust Co., Controller Edgar A. Doubleday of Hayden, Stone & Co., Vice President & Treasurer Erie V. Daveler of Utah Copper Co., his younger brother, Josiah Willard Hayden, a roly-poly Boston epicure to whom he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: For Nobler Men | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

Before recognizing the Soviet Union, church-going Franklin Delano Roosevelt inserted, as a condition of his deal with roly-poly Foreign Minister Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff, a clause insuring, so the President believed, that adequate church-going facilities for U. S. citizens in Russia would be preserved (TIME, Nov. 27, 1933...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Litvinoff, Streck & Jesus | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

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