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...tables of the best citizens), Roscoe Mayo Holdeman was taken into custody by the FBI. Holdeman had spent one year in the Army as a flying cadet. Last June he was given a medical discharge. He had never been outside the U.S. Unimpressed by his record as the smoothest, fastest, most effective bond salesman in Mississippi, the FBI locked ex-Cadet Holdeman up on charges of impersonating a U.S. Army officer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISSISSIPPI: Best Seller | 11/29/1943 | See Source »

Everything seemed to be going too smoothly. As soon as the anchor was down the boats of the first assault wave were away and circling in the water. It was the smoothest debarkation I had ever seen. It was too smooth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: THE BEACHES OF SALERNO | 9/27/1943 | See Source »

...trumpet like Jimmy Oliver of Company C. No, we're not gonna make any cracks about the Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company C, 'cause he's beyond that category--man, he can play anything! Why, he even turned that sour punch they serve ever there into the smoothest batch of squashed grapes you ever tasted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HARVARD SCUTTLEBUTT | 7/23/1943 | See Source »

...Tories had something, and they knew it. Their tails were up, and they were romping all around the pasture. They had the bulk of Britain's private wealth. They controlled virtually all civilian war industries and Government boards. They had the ablest men in public life, ran the smoothest party organization. Now Winston Churchill could take a hero's modest bow for the victories in North Africa, and his Party shared the political rewards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pasture Politics | 4/26/1943 | See Source »

...bring inflation under control. That still has to be done by the organization created to carry out the orders. To administer the new anti-inflation program, as Director of Economic Stabilization, the President chose shrewd, wiry Jimmy Byrnes, 63, a hale good fellow who was one of the smoothest politicians on Capitol Hill before he moved up to the Supreme Court last year. Byrnes is a middle-of-the-roader who can get along with men of all beliefs; he knows when to hold his tongue; he is an expert at finding the common denominator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Byrnes v. Inflation | 10/12/1942 | See Source »

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