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Townsend men held up their light wash pants with wide suspenders, wore no coats over their rumpled shirts; the women wore plain print dresses, outmoded hats, sensible shoes. At week's end Cleveland merchants complained that they had bought record quantities of picture postcards, almost nothing else. But there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THIRD PARTIES: Merger of Malcontents | 7/27/1936 | See Source »

Great efforts by the British League of Nations Union to coax down to the station the British Foreign Secretary, well-dressed Captain Anthony Eden, were rewarded to the extent that he sent his tactful private secretary, Mr. Oliver C. Harvey, who is always careful to dress somewhat badly. Rumpled Mr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Selassie & Fiuggi | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

It was well after 11 before husky, broad-shouldered Governor Landon, his collar-ends flapping and his short, iron-grey hair rumpled, showed up at his office in the State House for his 11 o'clock press conference. Seven newshawks were waiting for him. "Well, well, look who'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Kansas Candidate | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore last week harbored the jolliest of patients. He was Senor Manuel Luis Quezon of the Philippines. The President of the Philippine Senate and No. 1 politico of the Islands kept the entire staff in stitches, rumpled all kinds of hospital rules. Senor Quezon, 56, had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Stone & Salute | 11/12/1934 | See Source »

It was Benito Mussolini's show and small limelight did he give Adolf Hitler. Up to the very morning of their meeting in Venice last week both were nervous as tomcats. Each seemed to fear some hitch or double-cross. Each whipped his Press into absolute silence. Round about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Dictator & Dictator | 6/25/1934 | See Source »

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