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...audience that his extra work came out of him and not out of the city. He ridiculed critics who complain of his Washington visits: "I saw the city needed this. . . . The bankers wanted to charge me 6%, but I could get the money in Washington for 3%. So, wham!" (He ducked his head, took a track runner's on-your-mark position, dashed madly across the stage, pulled up puffing but triumphant.) "So, away to Washington I go again!" The bigwigs looked pained. The crowd loved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Tigers Have Nine Lives | 10/27/1941 | See Source »

Chen Cheng had the good political fortune to graduate in the last class at Paoting and teach the first class at Wham...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: FAR EASTERN THEATER: The Army Nobody Knows | 6/16/1941 | See Source »

...Susan Hayward looks, as well as plays, the part of the scheming minx who loves her in-law a little more than the legal requirements, thus producing a temporary hexagon rather than the standard eternal triangle. Without the zip of double-entendre dialogue or the oomph of a Lampy "wham" girl, the show is straight drama-a welcome relief from Hollywood's recent obsession with boudoir repartee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 5/19/1941 | See Source »

...Wham, Mr. Roosevelt; pow, Sears Roebuck; awk, big dipper; bop, summer rain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poetry, Feb. 17, 1941 | 2/17/1941 | See Source »

...insolvent Chicago & Eastern Illinois almost became the first Class I railroad to leave court jurisdiction under Section 77 of the Bankruptcy Act and return to private control. Security holders all agreed informally on a plan; yet the plan fell through. Last week, under a different plan, Trustee Benjamin Wham turned the title over to President Charles O'Neal, and C. & E. I. left the courts at last. Although nearly four years had elapsed, it was still the first Class I railroad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the Courts of Jesse | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

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