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Lord Woolton is a Tory and the left-wing press answered the Minister of Food by headlining "WOOLTON MUST GO!" The tabloid Daily Mirror attacked the Government by sending its columnist Cassandra out with a full wallet to gorge himself in London restaurants where rationing does not apply. Wrote replete Cassandra peevishly: "Within five days I have eaten at least seven times my weekly meat ration, five times my butter ration. . . . Not content with this debauch I have swallowed saddle of hare in wine sauce, lobster Thermidor, the inevitable (if you live that way) caviar, Hungarian pork goulash, quails...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Ration Shrinks | 1/20/1941 | See Source »

...wallet was turned over to the police this week, after being found in the Waldorf Cafeteria--minus the money it contained when lost. That money was intended to pay the termbill of a member of the Harvard Band, who now faces the prospect of leaving college for lack of funds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BAND-MEMBER LOSES MONEY, MAY LOSE HIS DEGREE TOO | 11/29/1940 | See Source »

...Keezer's collections, the item he treasures most and carries always in his wallet is an official pass admitting him to the reserved section on Widener's steps during the 1936 Tercentenary. There he sat and hobnobbed with celebrities from all over the world. John Harvard beat Keezer to the Square by two hundred and fifty years. He gave his library to the college, but Max Keezer has gone deeper into the memories of under-graduates than even books...

Author: By L. L., | Title: Circling the Square | 3/7/1940 | See Source »

...lights, dodged cross-town traffic as best he could, hoped no policeman would stop him. None did. The man told Forney to take him to the Psychiatric Division. When they pulled up to the door with a screech, the meter read 95?. The man struggled with his wallet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Get a Policeman | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

...that he neither starts a fight, jumps his budget, loses his wallet, drives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Milestones: Sep. 11, 1939 | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

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