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...years ago brisk, paunchy Senator Joseph F. Guffey lost his grip on the Pennsylvania Democratic machine, which he had carefully tooled along through long years jammed with hostile Republican traffic. Instead of climbing down with a grin, he cocked a snook at the machine's new leaders, put up a ticket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Rich Widow | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

...Thorpe (Night Must Fall). Part belongs to British Actor Edmund Gwenn for a first-rate performance as the butler who is submissive, not subservient. But most of the entertainment in The Earl of Chicago, and that is plenty, is provided by Robert Montgomery's transformation of his playboy grin into a fixed moronic stare, his playboy titter into a loony hee-hee, his playboy aplomb into gangster arrogance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 12, 1940 | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

Impish Alan Patrick Herbert, top-notch Punch humorist and jackanapes No. 1 of the House of Commons, bolted early breakfast one morning last week, hustled over to reach Westminster at 8 a.m. wearing an expectant grin. Other M. P.s, equally eager to squeeze into their House, which is much too small to seat all of them, were already jampacked around the door. They half-hoped that Leslie Hore-Belisha, recently ousted British War Secretary (TIME, Jan. 15), would clash with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain in the first really hot House of Commons debate since outbreak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Go-Getter's Exit | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

...assets of the system were listed at about $7,000,000 in 1922, when they bought control of it. Flashing an ear-to-ear grin, but keeping his own counsel, close-mouthed Howard Hopson reached far & wide. By 1938, Associated had bought or formed some 500 corporations. The top of the pyramid had been jacked far into the sky as Builder Hopson shoved more operating companies into the base, inserted sub-holding companies near its apex. At one time, some bottom operating companies had to feed through eleven layers to get their tribute to the capstone. Today Associated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Lost Balance | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

...answered with a most sarcastic grin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lightness & Light | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

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