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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 9, 1946 | 9/9/1946 | See Source »

...feel I speak for thousands of other men who would like to see this country at least start on the road back. None of us is going to turn down that much money and be made a "sucker" for not accepting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 9, 1946 | 9/9/1946 | See Source »

...wife, Lucy, who had been a schoolteacher and didn't favor drinking. Willie was pure and believed in his backers. He believed in the people, who repaid his faith by dozing through his well-reasoned speeches. Then Willie found out that he had been a sap and a sucker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Not without Blood | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

Capone & Colonels. But Elisha Walker's public admission that he, too, had been made a sucker by Murray Garsson added another intriguing chapter to the story of the Garssons' bumpy rise to riches and influence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Murray Garsson's Suckers | 8/12/1946 | See Source »

...house for 13,000 U.S. dollars last fall sold it recently for 136,000 and has gone home to retire. The first 1946 Chrysler sedan to arrive in Shanghai was sold by an ethically intentioned American dealer for $3,000, a comfortable profit. He is now feeling like a sucker, because it was resold recently for the third time for a reported...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Bad Government | 6/10/1946 | See Source »

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