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...people's representatives were busy last week working for their people, whose needs were great and varied. In the vaulted chambers of the two Houses,* Senators and Representatives rose like corn in a popper, introducing legislation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Congress' Week, Jan. 27, 1947 | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

...retired from the Met in 1932, later divorced her Austrian baron, Leopold von Popper, and married Hollywood Producer Winfield R. Sheehan (who died last July). During the war she quartered G.I.s in her castle near Salzburg, and turned her California ranch into a free convalescent home for wounded soldiers. Since a Carnegie Hall concert in 1937, she has sung mostly on the West Coast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Same Old Magic | 5/13/1946 | See Source »

...M/SGT.) FELIX POPPER Camp Gordon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 24, 1944 | 4/24/1944 | See Source »

Japanese battery suddenly blinked out -whether from prudence or from our fire we could not tell. Stout had shifted the nose gun to the side panel. Empty cartridge cases were flying about like corn in a popper. "This is the most fun I get out of a raid," Stout yelled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: --ALL YE FAITHFUL-- | 1/4/1943 | See Source »

...take more work off his hands. Navymen knew that "Rey" King did not give a Bosun's curse for old Navy tradition. If any ranker in the Navy could make them pop, things would now pop. And COMINCH King (who changed the abbreviation from CINCUS) finally had the popper all to himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy And Civilian Defense - NAVY: Sundownet's Sunrise | 3/16/1942 | See Source »

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