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...luxurious home to well-paying guests: to Otto Kahn during the Pecora investigation, to James A. Moffett while he was Federal Housing Administrator. Not till last summer did politics take a turn which promised to relieve her finances. As an ardent Roosevelt leader at the Philadelphia Convention, she undid the damage she had done herself at Chicago. The resignation of Minister Ruth Bryan Owen (now Mrs. Rohde) as Minister to Denmark also helped to make an opening for a woman in the diplomatic corps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: To Oslo | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

...arms to wear--and these have been piled in the Tower for many years--but I to trim them and put them on but find a helmet is wanting; so I to use a morion and with certain papers paste together a beaver for it, but alas, quite undid all the morning's labor at the first test blow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 3/4/1936 | See Source »

...runty little man with a pistol-butt scar on his hollow cheek pattered into an office in the Department of Agriculture last week. He undid a paper package, produced a pair of shears and two pots of paste. With these arranged neatly on his desk, Theodore Gilmore Bilbo, demagog extraordinary and twice (1916-20, 1928-32) Governor of Mississippi, inducted himself into a job announced officially as "having charge of assembling current information records for the Adjustment Administration from news, magazine and other published sources." Paper-clipper Bilbo's reported salary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Trouble Shooter | 7/3/1933 | See Source »

Brown's perfect blocking and timing. completely undid the Crimson, especially in the last half. Three costly fumbles by the backfield could not be offset by the outstanding work of Bancroft, Hageman, and Hardy. Dean's kicking was one of the few bright spots for the Crimson, in the disappointing outcome. Whitney also showed up well in the last few minutes of play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LACK OF SPIRIT BLAMED FOR DEFEAT OF CRIMSON | 10/31/1932 | See Source »

...certain international bankers. When on Friday his doctor told him he was in poor shape and should watch his heart he became very depressed. Saturday morning he arose, dressed, wrote three letters. Then, while his associates and bankers were growing impatient at his tardiness, he went to his bedroom, undid his waistcoat, lay down on the bed, put a bullet through his heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Poor Kreuger | 3/21/1932 | See Source »

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