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...Father's death, Kermit Roosevelt carried on the family tradition, but the old whoop and holler was gone. Banking in Buenos Aires, war service with the British and U. S. Armies (he served with the British in Mesopotamia, commanded an artillery battery in the U. S. Army), shipping after the War, exploration in China, hunting in India, books about the Far East-Son Kermit could follow the pattern of Father's life but he could not quite get its spirit. Last week it became plain that Kermit Roosevelt, plump and 50, had followed Father's fading footsteps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Father's Son | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...elected with C.I.O. backing. In San Francisco, Mayor Angelo Rossi was re-elected over a New Deal Congressman who had the support of Harry Bridges and the C.I.O. Republican victories in Pennsylvania and New Jersey brought a bugle blast of triumph from National Chairman John Hamilton; Democrats did not whoop so over a minor Tammany victory in New York City, or the expected Kentucky election of Governor Keen Johnson. Said Jim Farley: "The results are entirely satisfactory from a Democratic point of view...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: North, South, East, West | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Blithely letting it teeter, Shaw shifts his base and conducts a League-of-Nations trial of Hitler, Mussolini and Franco, with a British diplomat and a Soviet Commissar to whoop things up. In fantastic costumes and with grand-opera flourishes, truculent "Battler" (Maurice Colbourne), swaggering "Bombardone" and arrogant "Flanco" engage in a vicious dialectical dogfight, snapping at the judge and at one another like so many paradoxhunds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Play in Toronto: Nov. 13, 1939 | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

Only too well Mary Norton realized that Barden's amendments would pass on the House floor with a whoop and a holler, in the present rattlesnake mood of that chamber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: 25 Lousy Cents! | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

...afternoon drifts by. A bull session. A game of poker. A set of tennis. Dinner. The Vag sets out on a cruise to find some fellow freedmen. A Ford comes whipping by, top down, boys perched on the hood. Vag lets out a war-whoop. Brakes jam and squeal. "Hey, where you goin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 6/14/1939 | See Source »

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