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Not police nor FBI, but the 200 operatives of the little Secret Service, whose other job is guarding the President & family, hunt counterfeiters in the U. S. Last week its parent department, the U. S. Treasury, announced that the S. S. had gone far toward cleaning them out. An educational...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CURRENCY: Funny Money | 8/12/1940 | See Source »

In 1928 a big, genial, moonfaced, pug-nosed, tireless ball-of-fire named Lou Russell Maxon, just turned 28, set up his own advertising agency (Maxon, Inc.) in Detroit. One by one, Adman Maxon bagged such big accounts as General Electric, Heinz "57 varieties," Pittsburgh Plate Glass, Gillette Safety Razor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Detroit Fireball | 8/12/1940 | See Source »

>Brooklyn's skyrocketing Dodgers: A Fourth of July double-header against their archrivals, the New York Giants; 5-to-1, 6-to-1; retaining the lead in the National League pennant race (one game ahead of the Reds, five ahead of the Giants). In an equally close race in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, Jul. 15, 1940 | 7/15/1940 | See Source »

Though timid cinemaddicts who dislike having boys in the house may be dismayed by a Rugby whose youthful masculinity is as unembellished as an old sneaker, even they will find homely, button-nosed Jimmy Lydon an improvement over the standard Hollywood juvenile. A veteran of WPA drama and radio serials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 8, 1940 | 7/8/1940 | See Source »

As the week ended in London, Great Britain formally recognized long-nosed General Charles de Gaulle, with his London recruiting committee, as "the leader of all free Frenchmen, wherever they may be, who rally to him in support of the Allied cause." But the British Foreign Office hedged when the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Confusions and Capitulations | 7/8/1940 | See Source »

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