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...Since the death of Rudyard Kipling, the British Empire has found no louder rooter than little Max Aitken, the pulse-taking Express's Canadian-born publisher. The onetime bottle-washer came out with a long personal editorial upholding among other things the aristocratic principle ("an aristocracy of political heritage under the influence of a democratic vote"). But even Publisher Max had "no interest in rescuing Poland and Czecho-Slovakia from the gutter," was for the war only because the Empire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Bewildered | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

Chief cook and bottle-washer is Eli Oberstein. He is vice president, general manager of his own company, raises its capital, signs its artists, tells them how and what to play. Himself a former pianist, trumpet, trombone and tuba player, he chooses his performers with a canny ear, is well able to and does give them pointers on how to toot their own horns. He spends all his evenings In night clubs, cabarets, bars, movies, musical shows, on the lookout for new bands and new tunes. His admiring associates think he can pick a hit more unerringly than any other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Mr. Big | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

...From the washer-woman's hovel to the mansion of state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Self Yulegies | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

...businesses which had not had a run-in with NLRB. But C. I. 0. has been trying to enroll some 7,200 employes of big, 494-branched Bank of America in its white-collar United Office & Professional Workers union. One Edward C. Washer, in a Los Angeles branch of the bank, was an active organizer last year. He was fired in November. Last week NLRB's Trial Examiner R. N. Denham ordered Employe Washer reinstated with back pay, ordered Bank of America-which it pronounced engaged in interstate commerce -to stop blocking C. I. O., or any other union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Next: Banks | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

...your grocer for Magic Washer Soap Flukes (gong). Ladies and Gentlemen, for the first time in the history of the U. S. a Congressman has utilized a radio station to obtain the attention of his fellow members of Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Explainer | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

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