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The Senate is used to the silver situation, not to say bored by it. Yet last week a Senatorial Lone Ranger once more took the trail of the wild-riding, hell-for-leather Silver Bloc, grimly determined to stop the Treasury raids. Ordinarily, big, easygoing Senator John Gillis Townsend of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hi-Yo, Silver! | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

Practically the only people awake in suburban Millburn, N. J. one night last week were policemen cruising around to keep the nocturnal peace and two bored men on desk duty at headquarters, who sat with drooping ears to hear occasional reports from the patrol cars. It was the small hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW JERSEY: Broadcast | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

As soon as he had a chance, George Augustus' bored father, George I, fled from England to his beloved Hanover for a long vacation. Prince George Augustus and lively Caroline proceeded to ingratiate themselves with the English at cheerful Hampton Court, surrounded by learned English divines and delightful English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Quennell's Queen | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

George M. Cohan, who has been a professional actor since he wore knee pants, went to see an amateur show last week. Far from being bored, he laughed, cried, made a speech. The show, called Yankee Doodle Boy and written and produced by the Harlequins of Washington's Catholic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Jerry Cohan's Boy | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

Matter of Taste. The spry old Prime Minister began his own holiday by flying to inspect British troops in France, retorted to reporters who complained that the war is proving boresome: "It is a matter of taste. Personally, I would prefer to be bored rather than bombed."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Fight to the Finish? | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

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