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Advocate & Executor. But he remained loyal to Roosevelt. Acheson was one of the torchbearers in the 1940 campaign to put U.S. aid squarely behind Britain and France. He and three lawyer colleagues had written and made public a lawyer's brief supporting Roosevelt's right to swap the 50 U.S. destroyers for British bases in the Western Hemisphere. At the urging of Cordell Hull, Roosevelt invited Acheson back into his family as Assistant Secretary of State. Acheson gave up his law practice to take the $9,000-a-year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: The Man from Middletown | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

...anyone cares to remember, the major social athletic event of the winte season has been the Harvard Dartmouth hockey game. Annually at one of the hippodromes of the Boston Garden Areas Corporation, some 5,000 loyal alumni of the two institutions assemble to cheer on their respective squads and swap insluts among themselves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dartmouth Game Is Season Pay-Off | 2/16/1949 | See Source »

Here & there last week, as every week, men paused to chat and swap stories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: THE STORIES THEY TELL, Nov. 29, 1948 | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

...monster of the enemy starting line is BILL McLELLAN, 240-pound right tackle. He will swap blocks with Crimson tackle Will Davis, who spots him a more 45 pounds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: One Order of Finn-an Haddie, Coming Up . . . | 11/13/1948 | See Source »

...turns out that the two men are utterly helpless ninnies. Without a woman's guiding hand, they would doodle their lives away. Peggy's husband is ready to swap his teaching career for a mess of lettuce; the professor wavers on the brink of suicide. Both are rescued from their weaker natural instincts by the gay, brave, ginghamed Little Woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Oct. 25, 1948 | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

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