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...really made the pots boil was not acting like a candidate at all. He was Fiorello LaGuardia and he was fuming over a foaming glass of beer in Czechoslovakia (see FOREIGN NEWS). But last week dumpy Butch LaGuardia, who has been wont to characterize New York City's leading Democrats as "those political bums," bobbed up in the middle of a meaty Democratic stew. No Democrat at all (he is a member of the American Labor Party), he was suddenly a darling of the Democratic bigwigs and a leading contender for their U.S. Senate nomination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Boom-Boom in New York | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

...time in Britain was up), people shook his hand and told him not to worry. From all over England, letters poured in blasting the Government and offering assistance. The Government retreated. This week it extended Davis' stay in Britain until January (when the weather in Stoke is wont to be particularly foul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: No Place Like Stoke | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

...Sample (from nine-year-old Charles Smith of St. Louis, whose nominee did not win): "Im going to have a new teacher tomorrow. Ive been promoted up to three high. I wont say Im not glad to be promoted. But it makes me feel kind of sad when I think about going up above Miss Tobin. She was my teacher all through three low and no matter how high I ever go she will still be the best teacher in the world. All of the kids say that. Michael Reed will tell you the same. Michael and I were walking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Best Teacher | 5/27/1946 | See Source »

Into this explosive situation last week trod President Truman. As is his wont, the President simplified the complex situation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Hornets' Nest | 10/8/1945 | See Source »

James Aloysius Farley, speaking in and of Jersey City's Journal Square, whence Boss Frank Hague's brass-buttoned, blue-coated cossacks were once wont to chase orators who came there with the delusion that the whole U.S. enjoys free speech, all but busted his tongue through his cheek: "History is bound to note this spot as one of the battlegrounds where free speech was firmly established, together with the American way of life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 22, 1944 | 5/22/1944 | See Source »

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