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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...like an epidemic of paranoia (systematic delusions of persecution and grandeur) may spread, and that then large groups may become dependent on a paranoiac for their wellbeing. He mentioned, without naming, "a leading American research physician, recently returned from Germany, who tells me that a psychiatrist is in almost constant touch with the Fuhrer . . . that his Excellency suffers from paranoid manic-depression. ... It may be today that power does not so much corrupt as that the process of acquiring it maddens." Dr. Steinmetz also found paranoid symptoms in the "Moral Rearmament" movement engendered by Buchmanism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Psychologists & Headwaiters | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

Bilbo's man Johnson won by a solid margin, 162,688-to-136,264. Pat Harrison, unembarrassed by jibes at his constant switching, was now embarrassed in the way a politician best understands it. Apparently faded were his hopes of appearing at the 1940 Democratic National Convention in a good trading position as Mississippi's Favorite Son, for now Bilbo and Johnson will have first say in naming Mississippi's 18 delegates. And "The Man," long-standing Third Termite for Franklin Roosevelt, could lounge happily on the green satin chairs of his lonesome 25-room mansion near...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Bilbonic Plague | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...Acting Secretary, and once Embassy Secretary to Argentina (1917-19); for Argentina-Señor Don Felipe Alberto Espil, the raven-haired Argentine Ambassador to the U. S., who wears his white-tie-&-tails with the nonchalance of Fred Astaire, who was once the Duchess of Windsor's constant dancing partner, whose barber lets no sign of his 52 years show around the ears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Goodwill in the Pampas | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

Articles III through VII went on to promise constant consultation; friendly exchange of opinions or arbitration in case of disagreement; observance of the Pact for ten years, with five additional years optional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Realists Have Taken Over | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

...heckling Nazi radio system, the thought of Britishers being debagged by impolite little Japanese sentries in China has been a constant delight. So an an-schlussed Vienna station this month concocted a morsel of doggerel, in English, commemorating the situation in a vaudeville program relayed by all the other stations in Ostmark. The doggerel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Novel Nudist | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

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