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Elmer Lincoln Irey, Robert's dad, has been called the No. 1 civil servant of the U. S. Broad-shouldered and blond, he looks and talks like a Missouri-born Sunday-school superintendent-which he is. People who don't like him-he is particularly unpopular with malefactors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: T-Man | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

Dark, erect, dashing Captain Byron C. Brown, 48, U. S. Army retired, ran a machine-gun company in World War I until he was badly shot up, in later years prospected for gold in British Guiana mine fields. Nowadays, he and Mrs. Brown live quietly on the island of Martha...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: CBS C Q D | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

The baseball farm system, by which big-league teams own or control whole minor-league teams or some of their players, was considered a form of slavery in the early days of baseball. Nowadays it is considered quite legal. The World's Champion Yankees, for example, control 13 minor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Free Tigers | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

Lined up for her first at-homes were Civil Libertarian Roger Baldwin, 56, Novelist-Playwright Thornton Wilder, 42 (to elucidate James Joyce's Finnegans Wake). Next one will feature Psychiatrist Abraham Arden Brill, 65, who first titillated her old salon with Freud's teachings. The young people, suggests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mabel's Comeback | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

Tidd began his career working for Postal Telegraph in Waverly, N. Y. His first month he made $17-in commissions, by using high-pressure tactics selling telegrams. Soon after that, Postal tried to persuade him to take a salary because he was making too much money. By 1904, after night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Tidy Tiddbit | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

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