Word: wallet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stock Exchange, resigned his job, and last week joined the U.S. Army at $21 a month. Because willing service by the wealthy is good draft publicity, Manhattan's Selective Service publicity used the occasion to set off plenty of red fire. Mr. Martin cooperated. With $30 in his wallet ("I suppose I shouldn't have that much"), little more than a change of underwear in his zipper bag, he cheerfully suffered many an interview and photo. He also dramatized the leveling influence of the draft by sticking close to a contrasting fellow recruit: an awed $16-a-week...
...thanks to Reader McGregor for a well-made point. TIME meant no reflection on Colonel Donovan who has done a first-rate job of unofficial observing for the U.S. Colonel Donovan's loss of his wallet was correctly reported in the Feb. 3 issue. In its Feb. 17 issue TIME merely tried to show how a rabid pro-Axis newspaper dishes out "news," neither intending nor believing that any TIME reader would give any credence whatever to blatantly Nazi El Pampero's tale...
...native of Bulgaria may I be allowed to voice a protest against "The Balkan Touch," TIME, Feb. 3 [describing the disappearance of Wild Bill Donovan's wallet in Sofia...
...personal friend of King Boris, I lament the loss of Wild Bill's wallet, but I resent the aspersion cast on the honor of my poor but honest countrymen...
...arrived last fortnight in the Balkans. He had already spent several weeks in London, several days with the British forces in Africa. His first Balkan stop was Sofia, where he straightened his tie and went to call on the King. Leaving the Royal Palace, he discovered that his wallet containing passport, money and letters of introduction was missing. A search began and an appeal was made for its return. As "Wild Bill's" hour of de parture arrived, the Orient Express was kept waiting 20 minutes while the Royal Palace was ransacked. Finally, he departed for Yugoslavia, Greece, Albania...