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...eyed, barrel-chested roost-ruler of Puerto Rican politics bellowed with pain. This time, for a change, his three big rivals came out with echoes. How could they lose? The issue was everybody's sweetheart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Independence! | 2/28/1944 | See Source »

...King had good reason to keep his secret as long as he could. Though he now rules the Parliamentary roost with a fat 105 Liberal majority over all other parties, times have changed since the last election. Mackenzie King well knows that the next election may split the oldtime political structure of Canada asunder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada at War: THE DOMINION: The Last Session? | 1/31/1944 | See Source »

...bold as he is clever. He has influence and a following within the party not likely to be ignored. He will not permit it to be. . . . Republican leaders as a rule don't like Willkie. They never have. They mistrust him as another 'big cock of the roost,' stubbornly bent on having his own way, with contempt for all others whether of high degree or low, if you are not as smart as he is. But what to do about him? . . . Impossible to ignore Willkie; highly dangerous to defy him. For he is dynamite. Like Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Moose on the Loose | 11/1/1943 | See Source »

Nostalgia has come home to roost on Broadway. For the fourth* time in nine months an oldtime Viennese-type operetta started packing in the customers. This time it was Franz Lehar's The Merry Widow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Still Gay Weeds of Widowhood | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

...contribution today is limited for reasons which have become obvious to every Junior. This is "der Tag"-the day when all our omissions of the past are coming home to roost. It goes without saying that the situation is very grave...

Author: By J. D. Wilson, | Title: NSCS Juniors | 8/6/1943 | See Source »

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