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...astronomically wrong facts. His accusations enjoyed wide circulation through the Reader's Digest, which sent three writers about South America with him. Some Latin Americans already fear that the end of the New Deal may mean the end of Good Neighborliness. Hugh Butler's partisan rancor would probably travel faster in South America than the news that all major Republican Presidential possibilities unanimously endorsed Good Neighborliness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Barrage Over Butler | 12/27/1943 | See Source »

Most powerful sponsor of U.M.W. readmission was Hutcheson. The Carpenters' chief, Federation Republican war horse for the last three Presidential campaigns, shares Lewis' rancor against Franklin Roosevelt. A veteran hotel-room trader, Hutcheson heard the siren song of the A.F. of L. presidency in the deals arising from the Lewis application...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Lewis Rebuffed | 8/23/1943 | See Source »

...Jones sat at table together-but three men sat between them. Occasion: a Cabinet meeting. Ten days earlier they had called each other lying bunglers (TIME, July 12). Neither had taken back one word. They left the White House by separate doors, each still holding fast to: 1) his rancor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Status Quo | 7/19/1943 | See Source »

Second Front. Without rancor, Stalin built a good part of his speech around the second front-which "[will come] sooner or later . . . because our Allies need it no less than we do." Gone was the tone of reproach, so clear in Stalin's letter to Henry Cassidy (TIME, Oct. 12). Gone was the insinuation that Britain was harboring in Rudolf Hess a diplomatic agent from Hitler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Confidence in Moscow | 11/16/1942 | See Source »

...Must Suffer. She also taught it to Cinemactor Cummings. Cummings, a gentle young man, could not bring himself, after 22 tries, to sock Diana hard enough. At the 23rd take she kicked him in the shin with her high heel and he smacked her knock-kneed. Said Diana, without rancor: "If I hadn't done something, it could have gone on like that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The New Pictures | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

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