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...Standard Oil stock alone). Of his devotion to his "duty," his old friend Marcus Alonzo Hanna said: "Sane in every respect but one-he is money mad." The new-minted dimes and nickels he gave away were stuffed into his trouser pockets every morning by his valet, $5 a day. Bestowing them, he always admonished: "Save...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: The Billionaire | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

...author of the dialogue-which contains a discussion of Great Britain's defensive policy against aggressor nations-was Sir Robert Yan-sittart, Chief Diplomatic Adviser to the Foreign Office. *After attending a San Diego preview of Submarine Patrol, Actor Greene last fortnight set off with his valet on a hunting trip in the Kaibab National Forest. When he failed to telephone his mother as he had promised, forest rangers, rail-road agents, and 100 CCC workers, started a search for Actor Greene. Twenty-four hours later, he was discovered at Williams, Ariz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 28, 1938 | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

...Russia, Carl Carlson, 56, Swedish-born, U. S.-naturalized valet to U. S. Ambassador Joseph E. Davies, learned over the radio that he had won first prize ($150,000) in the Irish Hospital Sweepstakes. Meanwhile, Mr. Davies was unexpectedly received by Joseph Stalin, whom he had never met in his year and a half in Moscow, and with whom he chatted for two hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 13, 1938 | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

...asked whether he was pleased by Southern reaction to his Gainesville speech. To this the President, who likes to call Georgia his adopted State, made a reply that only an adopted Georgian would have given: that the only Southerner with whom he had talked was Irvin McDuffie, his Negro valet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Georgia Pique | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

...particular TIME was wrong. It reported that Presidential Valet Mc-Duffie introduced Walter White to Mr. Roosevelt. After Walter White had been put off for weeks by Secretary Marvin Mclntyre, Mrs. Roosevelt invited him to Sunday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 21, 1938 | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

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