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...first time wrong is done and the precedent established, it may be done by a good man with the best of intentions; but the precedent is established, and in future years that precedent will be used by the demagogue and the rascal to perform his tricks and to fool the public. . . . [Permitting a President unlimited tenure] would mean-not perhaps in my lifetime, or it may be not in the lifetime of anyone here-but it would mean ultimately the establishment in this country of a monarchy upon the ruins of our present republican form of government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Farley Wins | 8/31/1942 | See Source »

...Star boat Bolt; Don Peterson's Comet Blue Peter (only boat in the Race Week fleet to take five straight races). Star class's Undertaker-Yachtsman Frank Campbell, too busy to compete in the entire week's races, came to life over the weekend: his Rascal breezed home first in the final day's racing, giving Campbell his tenth straight victory in the weekly Long Island Sound Y.R.A. championship series...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, Aug. 10, 1942 | 8/10/1942 | See Source »

...night shelters for homeless unfortunates. For them it was a pity when Crime Accountant Joseph Cook nabbed him on a wretchedly small irregularity of ?7, found his piteous appeals had netted the spanking sum of about ?150,000 in his 17 letter-writing years. Last week the hoary old rascal went to jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pity the Vicar | 6/15/1942 | See Source »

...Edmonds property) that Dan'l Harrow wore in Rome Haul. He also has indefatigable industry, a bounding business precocity, and a talent, rather uncommon in country boys of 18, for slipping bribes where they will do the most good. "Do you remember my saying you were an unscrupulous rascal. Ames?" says realistic Mr. Chevalier, accepting the letter which Ames has purloined from a sea captain's safe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Exalted Alger | 1/26/1942 | See Source »

...Rascal. In Alameda, Calif., a gunman robbed a grocery store, poured a bottle of ink over the proprietress, walked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 24, 1941 | 11/24/1941 | See Source »

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