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Last week Jimmy Byrnes did. From General Marshall's personal staff he drafted 33-year-old Colonel Frank McCarthy, ex-reporter (Richmond News Leader) and ex-pressagent for the 1937 Broadway farce, Brother Rat, made him an Assistant Secretary of State...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: New Blood | 9/3/1945 | See Source »

...other occupations have refused to be outdone by the morticians. America's dignified Society of Automotive Engineers has noted the use of their sacred title by such prideful up-and-comers as the "rat, cockroach and bedbug eradicators," whose organization is known impressively as the American Society of Exterminating Engineers. Other engineers now include: sleep-engineer (bedding manufacturer), imagineer (idea-man), custodian-engineer (one who furnishes creative janitorial service), esthetic-engineer (an artist), pediatric-engineer (a corn-cutter), civilization-engineer (a scientist), odor-engineer (perfume manufacturer), and social-engineer (one who "appreciates that one important function of education...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Alphabet Soup | 8/27/1945 | See Source »

...been influenced by these Nazi pushovers, and they are just that. If Bundenthal likes this "natural, Godgiven beauty," I'll take Elsie the Cow. She couldn't be dumber, she's got more personality, and she gives milk too. And all the boys here in the RAT Bn. agree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 20, 1945 | 8/20/1945 | See Source »

Senator Taft fought vigorously and well for most of four days. In the clinches he pulled several clichés ("we will just pour $6 billion down a rat hole"). But his infighting was good: he had carefully studied the involved Bretton Woods proposals, which many a Senator obviously had not. At times, Senator Taft had Administration proponents stuck on fine points of the agreement's $8.8 billion monetary fund and $9.1 billion international bank structures (TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Out of the Woods | 7/30/1945 | See Source »

This would be no news to Congressman Albert J. Engel of Michigan. Earnest, wire-haired Mr. Engel, who has done plenty of scratching around in the underbrush of Washington, had long ago discovered that the War Department (in the matter of public funds) was a "rat hole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: For Cats & Dogs | 7/23/1945 | See Source »

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