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Real tough guys, the Dunne brothers were quiet, softspoken, wiry men. They joined in the fight of hosiery workers, iron workers, cemetery workers, put their mark on the whole city. But Dan Tobin began to have his doubts. Any conservative head of a big business would have had his doubts about the Dunne brothers, and Labor Leader Dan Tobin has a big business (500,000 members, more than $6,000,000 in the bank). Uncle Dan decided that the Dunne brothers were too radical. He expelled them, set up a rival union and tried to siphon off their followers...
Last week Britain's No. 1 economist arrived in the U.S. Off the Clipper stepped softspoken, twinkle-eyed, tall (6 ft. 1 in.) John Maynard Keynes, on an undisclosed mission under the Lend-Lease Act. He also expected to see the President, whom he last saw in 1934, when New Deal fiscal policies were in the blueprint stage. Keynes was the intellectual father of many of the New Deal's more radical fiscal policies, notably deficit spending and low interest rates. Since then he has become the father of a war-financing plan for Britain...
...produces this load of lunacy is none other than amiable Jim Moran. He is Professor Briggs. He is his own musical director, a job that involves nothing more than changing records as he goes along. He is also the Slo-Gro Corp. Softspoken, Virginia-born, 33-year-old Joker Moran is famous for having hunted for a needle in a haystack (see cut), sold an icebox to an Eskimo, reenacted the battle of Bunker Hill with twelve strabismic stooges to prove that Colonel Prescott was silly when he issued the command: "Don't fire until you see the white...
...Ledger's new publisher, Robert Cresswell, is a softspoken, red-haired Philadelphia conservative. He went to work for the Herald Tribune as a reporter in 1922, has been a special writer, assistant city editor, copy reader, promotion man, circulation manager. In 1932, he became treasurer...
Last week another Mississippi editor, hot-tempered Major Fred Sullens of the Jackson Daily News, who last spring got into a fist fight with Mississippi's Governor in a Jackson hotel (TIME, May 13), wrote: "Genial, kindly, softspoken, lovable Joe Dale! If the community he so long and ably served . . . does not come to his rescue in this grave crisis of his life, then its people are utterly devoid of any sense of human gratitude. And if they don't do it, Joe, here's telling you the brethren of the Mississippi press will certainly...