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...Then, the day after they made a date to set the date, he read in a newspaper that she had just married Sugar Heir Adolph B. Spreckels Jr. (TIME,. Sept. 17). Macoco explained his suit: "It's the principle. ... I do not like being made a sucker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Politics | 10/1/1945 | See Source »

...everyone realized that the President had not shut off U.S. aid to foreign countries. He had merely substituted one lending device for another. But the psychological effect of chopping off Lend-Lease was immense. The President had notified the world that the U.S. would not be played for a sucker. And he had bolstered his own reputation as a hard-headed Missourian who could be trusted to handle money in a businesslike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Rough & Harsh | 9/3/1945 | See Source »

Incendiary Blonde (Paramount) purports to record the life and raucous times of the late Texas Guinan (most famous of nightclub hostesses), whose battle cry ("Hello, sucker!") might be carved on a monument to the 1920's. Incendiary Blonde is not such a monument. It is a brassy synthesis of color, song and dance, spattered with laughs, sniffles and melodrama, and brought to life chiefly by vigorous, charming Betty Hutton. In its own way, it is a rather likable show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Aug. 6, 1945 | 8/6/1945 | See Source »

Hitler: "Knew even less than the rest ... a sucker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jul. 9, 1945 | 7/9/1945 | See Source »

OPAngler. In Miles City, Mont., des perate Fisherman Frank Spears finally put a red ration token on his hook, presently caught a sucker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 9, 1945 | 7/9/1945 | See Source »

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