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These inflationary actions illustrate the Administration's policy: yammer against inflation, but actually let it ride. There is no indication of a will to change that policy. Last week, realizing that he was getting nowhere, Arnall resigned as of Sept. 1, with a pointed comment: "Inflation will be constant and steady for the months ahead. I say to those who decry this prediction, just wait...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Schizophrenia | 8/18/1952 | See Source »

Whenever one of the athletically minded public relations men can get you alone, provided you show even the barest courtesy, he'll yammer at you for as long as you'll let him on what a great team he has coming up this fall. As early in the year as July, he's ready to tell you about the men who are going to run ring around all comers in October and November...

Author: By R. SCOT Leavitt, | Title: Sports of the Crimson | 9/19/1946 | See Source »

What many suffering listeners have wanted to do, one finally did last week. Mutual's program director, Charles Bulotti Jr., was relaxing at home, listening to dance bands over his network. He suddenly got fed up with the "yammer-yammer" of his announcers. Next day, in four sizzling pages, he told them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Yammer-Yammer | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

...troops running, crouching, chasing each other in on the Japanese defense works. A bazooka fires, flashing at both ends. Machine guns yammer. We can see grenades exploding and the infantry still running, naked and terrible in the sun. It is only slightly more than 100 yards they have to go in the open, and through our telescopes we can see them darting across in ones and twos, leaping into trenches. Everybody in the OP is yelling as they pour in. Some of them drop, spring up again, dash from shattered stump to shattered stump. Then nobody can be seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: War in the Mountains | 1/29/1945 | See Source »

...Washington, D.C. and the Denver area. But he lives simply, keeps business dealings direct: it took him 20 minutes to settle all his last year's Government renegotiation problems. "He gets his labor in the vicinity of the job, always hires union men, pays the union scale without a yammer. Real secret of Nate's success: no job is too big, none too small...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRODUCTION: Nate the Painter | 6/19/1944 | See Source »

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